boiling hot
Too warm, burning
Boiling hot describes extreme heat—literally at or near the boiling point of water, or figuratively just unbearably hot: The soup was boiling hot, It's boiling hot outside today.
The phrase is emphatic and informal, often used for weather or food temperature.
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- scaldingExtremely hot, burning
- burningCombustion in progress
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
searing · blazing · fiery · torrid · sizzling · seething · livid · steaming · furious · bubbling · baking · grilling · oppressive · sauna · sweating bullets · heatwave · sunstroke · stifling
- intensifiersvery, really, extremely, absolutely, incredibly
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