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
- (figurative) Extremely fervid or zealous.
- 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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