burning hot
Painfully high temperature
Burning hot describes extreme heat—hot enough to burn or feel like burning: The sand was burning hot under our bare feet.
The phrase intensifies hot beyond ordinary warmth, suggesting temperatures that cause pain or discomfort on contact.
It applies literally to surfaces, liquids, or weather, and figuratively to trending topics or intense situations: a burning hot take.
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- scaldingExtremely hot, burning
- torridExtremely hot or passionate
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
searing · blistering · incandescent · broiling · sizzling · cauterizing · volcanic · roasting · magma · lava · fire and brimstone · heat wave · zealous · on fire · passionate · fervent · pepper · spicy
- extreme temperaturesfreezing, boiling, frigid, subzero, blistering
- intensifiersvery, really, extremely, absolutely, incredibly