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burning, fervid, fiery

adj. extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope

hot, ardent, fervid, fiery, heated, torrid, impassioned, perfervid

adj. characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

eager, ardent, avid, zealous

adj. marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"

hot, ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, heated, torrid, impassioned, perfervid

adj. characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

burning, fervent, fervid, fiery

adj. extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope

tropic, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, tropical

adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"

hot, red-hot, sizzling

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

scorching, sizzling

adj. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"

emotional

adj. of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

stirring, soul-stirring

adj. exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech"

touching, affecting, poignant

adj. arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

enthusiastic

adj. having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons"

emphatic, emphasized

adj. spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"

ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rhapsodic

adj. feeling great rapture or delight

madcap, tearaway, brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous

adj. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

cordial, hearty

adj. showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome"

friendly

adj. characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"

romantic, amatory

adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"

bathetic, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy

adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

titillating, erotic

adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing

excited, het up

adj. in an aroused state

violent, vehement, fierce

adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"

eager, ardent, avid, zealous

adj. marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"

vigorous, vehement

adj. characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war"

glowing

adj. highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise"

serious

adj. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"

critical

adj. characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"

baking, baking hot

adj. as hot as if in an oven

blistering, blistery

adj. hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun"

boiling, scalding

adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"

warming, calefacient

adj. producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a mustard plaster is calefacient"

heating, calefactory, calefactive

adj. serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory"

calorifacient

adj. producing heat; usually used of foods; "calorifacient chili peppers"

calorific

adj. heat-generating; "the calorific properties of fuels"

heated

adj. made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty"

incandescent, candent, white-hot

adj. glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

overheated

adj. heated beyond a safe or desirable point; "the child became overheated"; "overheated metal"

radioactive

adj. exhibiting or caused by radioactivity; "radioactive isotope"; "radioactive decay"; "radioactive fallout"

red-hot

adj. glowing red with heat

scorching, sizzling

adj. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"

tropic, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, tropical

adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"

thermal

adj. caused by or designed to retain heat; "a thermal burn"; "thermal underwear"

torrid

adj. burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert"

lusty, amorous, lustful

adj. vigorously passionate

choleric

adj. easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells

demon-ridden

adj. as if possessed by demons

fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid

adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

manic

adj. affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"

wild, violent

adj. in a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"

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