hot war

1. 1.

   actual fighting between the warring parties

   Antonymscold war

   Broaderwar

Questions about hot war

What does hot war mean?

hot war means "actual fighting between the warring parties".

What is the opposite of hot war?

The recorded antonyms are cold war.

Is hot war a common word?

hot war is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.