adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of heat form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Very agitated, angry or impassioned.

   "a heated argument"

2. 2
   Made warm or hot by some means. not-comparable, usually

   "a heated greenhouse / swimming pool / towel rail"

Adjective

1. 1
   made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’) wordnet
2. 2
   marked by emotional heat; vehement wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

hotabandonedablazeacrimoniousafireangry

Antonyms

All antonyms

coldunheated

Example

More examples

"The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark."

Related phrases

centrally heatedheated gamer momentheated gaming momentheated tobacco

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