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say it: haht
hot is an adjective meaning "used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning". It is pronounced /ˈhɑt/ — haht. It carries 21 recorded senses.
used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
“hot stove”
“hot water”
“a hot August day”
“a hot stuffy room”
“she's hot and tired”
“a hot forehead”
very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
“a hot sports car”
“a blistering pace”
“got off to a hot start”
“in hot pursuit”
“a red-hot line drive”
performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
“a hot drummer”
“he's hot tonight”
colloquialism
very popular or successful
“one of the hot young talents”
“cabbage patch dolls were hot last season”
colloquialism
very unpleasant or even dangerous
“make it hot for him”
“in the hot seat”
“in hot water”
having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
“hot fuel rods”
“a hot laboratory”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.