white hot
Beyond red-hot
White hot describes metal heated to such extreme temperatures that it glows white—hotter than red hot.
The phrase extends to anything at peak intensity: white-hot rage, white-hot passion, The market for tech stocks was white hot.
Also spelled white-hot or whitehot.
- blazingBurning very brightly
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- burning desireIntense emotional craving
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
burning · heat of the moment · glowing · searing · incandescent · molten · blast furnace · intense · fever pitch · electrifying · ardor · raging · fire and fury · flaming · plasma · crucible · forge ahead · smoldering
- extreme heatblazing, blistering, boiling, burning, broiling
- extreme temperaturesfreezing, boiling, scorching, frigid, subzero
- heat sourcesheater, radiator, furnace, stove, oven
- blacksmithinganvil, anvils, forge, forges, bellows
- temperaturecold, warm, cool, freezing, boiling
- energy metaphorsamped, charged, electric, electrified, jolt