steaming hot
Just from oven
Steaming hot describes something hot enough to produce visible steam—food fresh from the oven, a cup of coffee, a shower.
The phrase emphasizes intense heat: a steaming hot bowl of soup, The pavement was steaming hot in the summer sun.
It can also intensify metaphorical heat: a steaming hot take, steaming hot gossip.
- baking hotIntensely, oppressively warm
- searing hotExtremely, dangerously heated
- white hotHeated to luminescence
- glowing hotLuminous from intense heat
- burning hotIntensely, dangerously heated
scorching hot · red hot · scalding hot · simmering · humid · fuming · vaporization · bubbling · muggy · boiling · sultry · heatwave · sweltering · passionate · hot and bothered · sizzling · fiery · oppressive