<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.</li><li>Synonyms: sultry, torrid, boiling, scorching, burning, fiery, heated.</li><li>Antonyms: cold</li><li>having or causing a sensation of great bodily heat; attended with or producing such a sensation: He was hot with fever.</li><li>creating a burning sensation, as on the skin or in the throat: This ointment is hot, so apply it sparingly.</li><li>sharply peppery or pungent: Is this mustard hot?</li><li>Synonyms: piquant, biting, spicy, sharp</li><li>having or showing intense or violent feeling; ardent; fervent; vehement; excited: a hot temper.</li><li>Synonyms: violent, irate, furious, angry, impetuous, excitable, intense, passionate, fiery, fervid</li><li>Informal: having a strong enthusiasm; eager: a hot baseball fan.</li><li>Slang: sexually aroused; lustful.</li><li>sexy; attractive.</li><li>violent, furious, or intense: the hottest battle of the war.</li><li>strong or fresh, as a scent or trail.</li><li>absolutely new; fresh: a dozen new mystery stories hot from the press.</li><li>requiring immediate delivery or correspondence; demanding priority: The hot freight must be delivered by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, or we'll lose the contract.</li><li>Slang: skillful in a reckless or daring way: a hot pilot.</li><li>following very closely; close: to be hot on the trail of a thief.</li><li>(of colors) extremely intense: hot pink.</li><li>Informal: popular and commercially successful; in demand; marketable: The Beatles were a hot group in the 1960s.</li><li>Slang: extremely lucky, good, or favorable: A poker player has to have a hot hand to win the pot.</li><li>Slang: (in sports and games) playing well or winningly; scoring effectively: a hot pitcher.</li><li>Slang: funny; absurd: That's a hot one!</li><li>Games: close to the object or answer that is being sought.</li><li>Informal: extremely exciting or interesting; sensational or scandalous: a hot news story.</li><li>Jazz: (of music) emotionally intense, propulsive, and marked by aggressive attack and warm, full tone.</li><li>(of a musician) skilled in playing hot jazz.</li><li>Informal: (of a vehicle) capable of attaining extremely high speeds: a hot new jet plane.</li><li>Slang: stolen recently or otherwise illegal and dangerous to possess: a hot diamond necklace.</li><li>wanted by the police.</li><li>dangerous.</li><li>Informal: in the mood to perform exceedingly well, or rapidly, as during a burst of creative work: Finish writing that story while you're still hot.</li><li>actively conducting an electric current or containing a high voltage: a hot wire.</li><li>of, relating to, or noting radioactivity.</li><li>Metalworking: noting any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization due to the strain: hot working.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>in a hot manner; hotly.</li><li>while hot: Garnish the potatoes with parsley and serve hot.</li><li>Metalworking: at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization: The wire was drawn hot.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) hot·ted, hot·ting.</li><li>Chiefly British Informal: to heat; warm (usually followed by up).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the hots, Slang: intense sexual desire or attraction.</li></ul>