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Synonyms for scalding hot

  • adjective

Most common

smoking hot baking hot piping hot steaming boiling hot scalding burning hot

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Smoking hot — extremely hot

smoking hot, baking hot, piping hot, steaming, steaming hot

2. Boiling hot — used other than figuratively or idiomatically, see scalding, hot, very hot in a way that can scald, involving…

boiling hot, scalding

Other

burning hot

Antonyms

cold, ice-cold, stone-cold

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scalding, hot: very hot in a way that can scald, involving fluids (e.g., water, steam, gases).

    Near-synonyms: steaming hot, steaming, boiling hot, piping hot; see also Thesaurus:hot

  2. adj. 2

    Extremely hot.

Related words

Is a kind of
hot

Example sentences

  • steaming They chatted animatedly over cups of steaming tea.
  • scalding Sherman said the coffee was hot but not scalding.

By length

8 letters
steaming2, scalding2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (steaming2 = 2 syllables).