baking hot en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baking, hot: very hot in a way that involves baking (in an oven or as if in an oven).
Watch out for that exhaust pipe! It's baking hot!
Near-synonyms: roasting, baked
Watch out — the chrome parts of the car are baking hot from the sun.
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(broadly, idiomatic, not-comparable) Very hot.
Near-synonyms: smoking hot, boiling hot, piping hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming; see also Thesaurus:hot
The weather was baking hot.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1954, II. v., page 121:I've got to get out of this coat! I'm baking hot!
Antonyms
brass monkeys · nippy · glacial · cold · gelid · frozen · glacial · Arctic · cold as a mackerel · icy · clay-cold · Baltic · snowy · sleety · frozen · freezing cold · boreal · Baltic · inclement · freezing · algid · gelid · nippy · chilly · frore · hiemal · frosty · chill · chilly · wintry · brumal · inclement · chilled · chilled · freezing · algid · cold · sleety · icy · clay-cold · frosty · parky · taters · wintry · cold as charity · polar · nesh · hiemal · Arctic · brumal · nesh · boreal · snowy · freezing cold · taters · cold as a mackerel · chill · brass monkeys · cold as charity · frore · polar · parky
Coordinates
hot · piping hot · choleric · boiling hot · calid · steaming · heated · steaming hot · scalding hot · smoking hot
Hypernyms
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Synonyms
steaming · boiling hot · smoking hot · scalding hot · hot · choleric · piping hot · baking · roasting · calid · baked · baking · steaming hot · baked · roasting · heated