What does white-hot mean?
White-hot means Hot enough to glow with a bright white light..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Hot enough to glow with a bright white light..
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.
a white-hot rage
Swift’s catalog of generation-defining hits and canny marketing sense have helped her achieve a level of white-hot demand and media saturation not seen since the 1980s heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna[…]
French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.
Use white-hot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
White-hot means Hot enough to glow with a bright white light..
Common synonyms include hot, white.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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