baking hot
Extremely, unbearably warm
Baking hot describes extreme heat, the kind that makes you feel like you're inside an oven.
The phrase typically describes weather or environments: It was baking hot on the beach, The car had been sitting in baking hot sun all afternoon.
Sometimes shortened to just baking: It's baking out there.
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- broilingExtremely hot, or oven-top cooking
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- roastingCooking with dry heat
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
heatwave · heat wave warning · suffocating · searing · dehydrating · inferno · hellish · incandescent · arid · desert sun · oppressive · torrid · parching · heat stroke · stifling · fiery · blazing · sizzling