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adj. emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid rhythms"

torrid

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

sunbaked

adj. baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned; "sunbaked adobe bricks"

blistering

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

boiling, hot under the collar

adj. very angry

fiery, flaming

adj. very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"

sulfurous, sulphurous

adj. of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur

sensual, sultry

adj. sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance"

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"

fervent, fervid

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

calefacient, warming

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

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. marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"

white-hot

adj. intensely zealous or fervid; "fierce white-hot loyalty"

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

sizzling

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

tropical, tropic

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"

cold

adj. unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"

cold

adj. (color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish grey"

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