hot tears
Weeping from intensity
Hot tears are tears shed in moments of intense emotion—anger, shame, frustration, or grief.
The phrase emphasizes the physical warmth of tears against skin and the raw feeling behind them: Hot tears streamed down her face as she read the letter.
The expression is somewhat literary, appearing more often in novels than in speech.
- criesWeeps or shouts
- cryingEmotional tear release
- welling upGradually rising from within
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- sobConvulsive weeping
ugly cry · weep · anguish · grief · catharsis · trembling · sadness · lump in throat · choked up · stinging · frustration · fury · burning · scalding · heartbreak · vulnerability · rage · emotional release
- metal flawscracks, porosity, voids, inclusions, shrinkage
hot tearsdry eyes
Lacking natural moisture
blank expression · apathy · emotional numbness · emotional detachment · detachment
hot tearshappy tears
Weeping caused by elation
tears of joy · beaming smile · laughter · giggles · smiles
hot tearsunfeeling
Without compassion or emotion
heartlessness · callousness · emptiness · hollowness · dead inside