Definition of: hot

(hot) adjective hot·ter, hot·test
1. Having or giving heat; of high temperature: opposed to cold and exceeding warm in degree.
2. Producing a burning or biting sensation to the taste or touch: hot pepper; hot acid.
3. Marked by passion or zeal; fiery; fervent: hot words.
4. Slang Excited with sexual desire.
5. Violent; intense; raging: a hot battle.
6. Slang So new as not to have lost its freshness, currency, excitement, etc.
7. Slang Recently stolen or smuggled: hot goods.
8. Music Slang a In jazz, characterized by fervent and exciting rhythm and spirit, a lively tempo, and improvised variations on the original score. b Performing such music.
9. Following very closely: in hot pursuit.
10. In games, near to the subject or solution sought.
11. In hunting, distinct; strong: said of a scent.
12. Having an electrical charge, especially of high voltage: a hot wire.
13. Dangerously radioactive, as the fall–out of an atomic bomb.
—to make it hot for Slang To make the situation extremely uncomfortable for.
—adverb In a hot manner. [OE hāt]
—hot′ly adverb
—hot′ness noun Synonyms: burning, choleric, fervent, fervid, fiery, glowing, heated, irascible, passionate, peppery, pungent, stinging, vehement, violent. See ARDENT, EAGER¹. Antonyms: arctic, bleak, boreal, chill, chilly, cold, cool, freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, icy, polar, wintry.