What is hot?

More definitions of "hot":

• (adj): Having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm.
  Example: "Hot for travel"

• (adj): Of a seeker; near to the object sought.
  Example: "Hot on the trail"
  Synonyms: warm

• (adj): Having a piquant burning taste of spices or peppers.
  Example: "Hot peppers"; "hot curry"
  Synonyms: gingery, peppery, spicy

• (adj): Extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm.
  Example: "A hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"

• (adj): Charged or energized with electricity.
  Example: "A hot wire"
  Synonyms: live

• (adj): 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.
  Example: "Hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"

• (adj): Newest or most recent.
  Example: "News hot off the press"; "red-hot information"
  Synonyms: red-hot

• (adj): Capable of quick response and great speed.
  Example: "A hot sports car"

• (adj): Having or bringing unusually good luck.
  Example: "Hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"

• (adj): Sexually excited or exciting.
  Example: "Was hot for her"; "hot pants"

• (adj): Very good; often used in the negative.
  Example: "He's hot at math but not so hot at history"

• (adj): Having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity.
  Example: "Hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"

• (adj): Wanted by the police.
  Example: "A hot suspect"

• (adj): Newly made.
  Example: "A hot scent"

• (adj): Marked by excited activity.
  Example: "A hot week on the stock market"

• (adj): Very unpleasant or even dangerous.
  Example: "Make it hot for him"; "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"

• (adj): Performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy.
  Example: "A hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"

• (adj): (color) bold and intense.
  Example: "Hot pink"

• (adj): Recently stolen or smuggled.
  Example: "Hot merchandise"; "a hot car"

• (adj): Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense.
  Example: "The fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"
  Synonyms: raging

• (adj): Very popular or successful.
  Example: "One of the hot young talents"; "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"

Famous quotes containing the word hot:

“Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,
Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Good-night to the Season!—the dances,
The fillings of hot little rooms,
The glancings of rapturous glances,
The fancyings of fancy costumes;
The pleasures which Fashion makes duties,
The praisings of fiddles and flutes,
The luxury of looking at beauties,
The tedium of talking to mutes;”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)

“The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)