heated

1. 1.

   made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')

   “a heated swimming pool”

   “wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana”

   “he was all het up and sweaty”

   Synonymsheated uphethet up

   Similarhot
2. 2.

   marked by emotional heat; vehement

   “a heated argument”

   Similarhot

Other forms of heated

comparative

heatedder·

superlative

heateddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heated

What does heated mean?

heated means "made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heated?

heated has 2 syllables: hea-ted. The stress falls on "hea". In IPA it is /ˈhitəd/.

What is another word for heated?

Close synonyms include heated up, het, het up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heated a common word?

heated is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.