ENGLISH DICTIONARY

White-hot

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: White-hot is an adjective meaning Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.

Meaning

Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.

More Meanings

  1. (figurative) Extremely fervid or zealous.
  2. Blazing.

Example Sentences

a white-hot rage
Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.
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”.
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[…]

Synonyms for white-hot

Depending on context, synonyms include hot, white.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hot, white, red-hot, blazing, excandescent, redhot.

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