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adjective

Definition of roastingnext
as in boiling
having a notably high temperature turn on the air conditioner—the house is roasting today!

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roasting

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verb

present participle of roast
as in teasing
to make fun of in a good-natured way playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roasting
  1. boiling
  2. teasing
  3. searing
  4. burning
  5. joking
  6. hot
Adjective
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Definition of boiling
Verb
  • Seinfeld was clearly teasing, but sure enough, several headlines reported it as gospel with perhaps a mention three paragraphs in that it was intended to be humorous.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk are teasing the third and final season of the Netflix series.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of teasing
Adjective
  • Last year, Love penned a searing op-ed in The Guardian about the lack of female artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2025
  • If Demi Moore wasn’t going to win for her career-reviving performance in the horror satire The Substance, then surely British voters would reward Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her searing depiction of depression in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
Definition of searing
Adjective
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • For answers to more burning questions about Season 2, plus Season 3 clues (including which Season 1 character will be coming back), read Deadline’s interview with The Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of burning
Verb
  • Nile and Bernard seemed like best friends, always joking and very excited.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Not just the kind of vaudevillian two guys joking around with each other on stage, but even just as individual comedians.
    — Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of joking
Adjective
  • And in the dead of Southern summers, the last thing any sleeper wants to encounter is being hot, and that’s where science steps in.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Last year the Spokane regional was a hot topic and became noteworthy as hotel space was limited in the city causing many teams to stay across the Idaho border in Coeur d’Alene.
    — Allison Smith, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of hot
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