ultrahot

adjective

ˌəl-trə-ˈhät How to pronounce ultrahot (audio)
Definition of ultrahotnext
as in boiling
having a notably high temperature ultrahot by any standard, a bolt of lightning can attain a temperature of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ultrahot
  1. boiling
  2. searing
  3. hot
  4. burning
  5. piping hot
  6. molten
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
Adjective
  • Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.
    Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of searing
Adjective
  • Residents were also instructed to clean and scrub any containers with hot soapy water or bleach to remove any Aedes aegypti eggs and leave them to dry for at least a day.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • That's a bit hotter than the 2.4% annual rate in September, which was the slowest pace since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of hot
Adjective
  • At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
Definition of burning
Adjective
  • Order a full or half wheel plus piping hot liquid chocolate for dipping.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Taking a page out of natural gas extraction methods, the geothermal companies create many fractures within the piping hot rock and pour in water that gets heated to temperatures approaching 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of piping hot
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  • Currents of molten lava rose and collapsed like thick tongues of muddy ocean water, making a concussive sloshing sound that snapped and boomed.
    Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Train derailment in Kentucky forced evacuation for molten sulfur spill In November 2023, a CSX train derailed in Eastern Kentucky, spilling molten sulfur and forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town over air quality concerns, NBC News reported.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of molten
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