White-hot
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Hot enough to glow with a bright white light. not-comparable
"The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable."
- 2 Extremely fervid or zealous. figuratively, not-comparable
"a white-hot rage"
- 3 Blazing. not-comparable
"Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat."
- 1 glowing white with heat wordnet
- 2 intensely zealous or fervid wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable."
More for "white-hot"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.