Red-hot

Definition: Red-hot

Red-hot

Adjective

1. Having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman".

2. Newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information".

3. Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues".

4. Glowing red with heat.

5. Very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "red-hot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Red-hot

Attack

Fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, pour a broadside into; fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine.

Excitation

Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Prediction

Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve

Violence

Fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.

Crosswords: Red-hot

Someone's got to don the oven mitts of all that's right and strangle the red-hot throat of all that's wrong (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

Somebody's shoved a red-hot poker up our ass, and I want to know whose name is on the handle (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

You shall be punished, and instead of red-hot coals, you will eat chocolate ice cream (Santa Claus; writing credit: René Cardona; Adolfo Torres Portillo)

Last of the Red-Hot Dragons (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Royal Mess / Her Knight to Remember (Harlequin Duets: Red-Hot Royals) (reference)

• Red-Hot Customers : How to Get Them, How to Keep Them (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

War production forges ahead...literally. This red-hot bar is being forged to rough shape before it is machined. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

i skuqur (erubescent, flush, fried, glowing, livid, red), i ri (adolescent, fledgeling, fledgling, fresh, in mint condition, junior, juvenile, new, novel, original, rising, stripling, teenager, teener, young, youngling, youthful), i nxehtë (ardent, burning, earnest, fervent, fiery, glowing, heated, hot, scalding, torrid), i ngrohtë (cordial, cushy, genial, homelike, homing, snug, warm, warm blooded, warming). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملتهب حماسة و انفعال, ‏ملتهب (ablaze, aflame, blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, vehement), ‏متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвсем нов (brand new, unworn), сензационен (lurid, scare, sensational, sultry, thrilling, yellow), разгорещен (aglow, heated, warm), краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, uttermost, veriest, wild-eyed), книпхофия, вбесен (livid, waxy, wild), нажежен до червено, ентусиазиран (enthusiastic, warm, whole-hearted), последен (dernier, end, final, lag, last, last ditch, latest, latter, lattermost, new, outside, parting, recent, terminal, the last, ultimate, uttermost). (various references)

Chinese 

炽热. (various references)

Czech

rozpálený, rozžhavený, rozèilený (excited, upset), vášnivý (ardent, avid, fervent, heated, impassioned, inveterate, keen, passional, passionate, sultry, torrid, vehement, violent). (various references)

Danish

roedgloedende jern (red-hot iron). (various references)

Dutch

roodgloeiend ijzer (red-hot iron). (various references)

Finnish

tulikuuma, hehkuva (ardent, burning, fiery, glowing, live). (various references)

French

hot-dog, enthousiaste (responsive), chauffé au rouge, ardent. (various references)

German

glühend (aglow, ardent, blazing, blistering, broiling, burning, consuming, fervent, fiery, flaming, flushed, gloweringly, glowing, incandescent, live, torrid, torridly). (various references)

Greek 

πυρακτώμενοσ (incandescent), φλογερόσ (aglow, ardent, fiery, flaming, glowing, inflammatory, lurid, passionate). (various references)

Hungarian

vörösen izzó (cherry), szenvedélyes (fervid, fierce, fiery, full-blood, heady, hectic, hot, impassioned, impetuous, passional, passionary, passionate, temperament, tropical), lángoló (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, blazing, flaming, flamy, flaring, lurid), friss (beany, cool, crispy, fresh, green, hot, just cooked, lush, new, recent, spruce). (various references)

Indonesian

pijar (blazing, glowing, incandescent). (various references)

Italian

rovente (burning, hot, scorching), arroventato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉄火 (gambling, gunfire, red-hot iron, violent-tempered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

てっか (gambling, gunfire, red-hot iron, violent-tempered). (various references)

Manx

smarageagh (glowing), jiarg loshtee (burning). (various references)

Pig Latin

ed-hotray.(various references)

Portuguese

quente (baking, heartwarming, heated, hot, snug, torrid, warm), aquecido (heated, warmish), acalorado (heated, warm). (various references)

Romanian

incandescent (candent, glowing, incandescent, luminous, white hot), înfocat (ardent, bright, eager, enthusiastic, fervid, fiery, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, passionate, proud), înflãcãrat (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm blooded), închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, involved, pent, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen). (various references)

Russian 

раскаленный докрасна, разгоряченный (heated, hot), краснощекий, горячий (ardent, boiling hot, burning, earnest, fervent, fervid, fiery, full of beans, glowing, heady, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, mettled, vehement, warm blooded), накаленный до красна. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vatren (ardent, burning, fiery, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, peppery, perfervid, spirited, spunky, torrid), usijanje (candescence, glow), usijan metal, usijan (candent, candescent, glowing, incandescent). (various references)

Spanish

candente (blistering, glowing, live, sizzling). (various references)

Swedish

glödhet (glowing, white hot). (various references)

Thai

สำคัญ (arch, chief, great, key, leading, material), ร้อนจนเป็นสีแ�"ง, ซึ่งมีอารม�"์รุนแรง. (various references)

Turkish

kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), kıpkırmızı olmuş, fanatik (devotee, energumen, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, roaring, rooter, zealot), en yeni (latest, newest), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), öfkeli (angry, bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, furious, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, snotty, sore, spunky, vehement, waxy, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up), çok taze. (various references)

Ukrainian

розпечений до червоного, полум'яний (empyreal, igneous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nóng đỏ giận điên lên, n�"ng nhiệt (ardent, ardently, passionate, strong, tropical), giận bừng bừng đầy nhiệt huyết. (various references)

candens. (various references)

Misspellings

"Red-hot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Radhost, Redi-hots. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dehort.

-1 letter: doeth, doter, horde, other, throe, trode.

-2 letters: doer, dore, dote, doth, herd, hero, hoed, hoer, ohed, redo, rode, rote, thro, toed, tore, trod.

-3 letters: doe, dor, dot, edh, eth, her, het, hod, hoe, hot, ode, ore, ort, red, ret, rho, rod, roe, rot, ted, the, tho, tod, toe, tor.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, eh.

+1 letter: dehorts, frothed, shorted, theroid, thorned, throned, torched, trothed, worthed.

+2 letters: authored, bothered, chordate, chortled, crotched, dehorted, dethrone, exhorted, goatherd, hectored, mothered, outheard, pothered, potsherd, theropod, threnode, threnody, throated, throbbed, thronged, thyreoid, tochered, trophied.

+3 letters: atrophied, bethorned, betrothed, brothered, charioted, chondrite, chordates, crocheted, dehorting, dethroned, dethroner, dethrones, doughtier, dowitcher, drouthier, endotherm, enthroned, erythroid, euthyroid, goatherds, godfather, godmother, handwrote, heartwood, heterodox, holstered, hotdogger, hysteroid, inthroned, octahedra, outrushed, overhated, potholder, potsherds, reclothed, retouched, rhodolite, rhodonite, rhytidome, shortened, smothered, studhorse, theorised, theorized, theropods, threefold, threnodes, threnodic, threshold, throttled, trihedron, undershot, unthroned.