different between hot vs wroth

English

Alternative forms

• (physically attractive): hawt (slang, especially Internet), hott (slang, especially Internet)

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English h?t (“hot, fervent, fervid, fierce”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *kay- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), Low German het (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• (General American) enPR: hät, IPA^(key): /h?t/

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)

1. (of an object) Having a high temperature.

   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.

3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

4. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.

5. Feverish.
6. (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.

7. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting. [from the 19^thc.]

8. Stolen. [from the 20^thc.]

9. (not comparable) Electrically charged.
10. (informal) Radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
11. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.

12. (slang) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
13. (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.

14. (slang, with for) Attracted to.

15. Popular; in demand.

16. Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.

    a hot topic

17. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

18. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
    • 1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

      "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

    • 2002, Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

      The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

19. Fresh; just released.
    • 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

      A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.

    • 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

      Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.

20. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
21. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something

22. (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.

23. (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

24. (of ammunition) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:hot.

Synonyms

• (having a high temperature): heated; see also Thesaurus:hot
• (of the weather): baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering
• (feeling the sensation of heat): baking, boiling, boiling hot
• (feverish): feverish, having a temperature
• (spicy): piquant, spicy, tangy
• (slang: stolen): stolen
• (electrically charged): live
• (radioactive): radioactive
• (slang: physically or sexually attractive): attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy
• (of a draft/check): rubber, bad

Antonyms

• (having a high temperature): chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy
• (of the weather): cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy
• (feeling the sensation of heat): freezing, freezing cold
• (spicy): bland, mild
• (electrically charged): neutral, dead
• (slang): lifeless

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)

1. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
2. (with up) To become lively or exciting.
   • 2018 "Clean Slate", Wentworth

     Turf war's hotting up.

Synonyms

• hot up; heat, heat up

Anagrams

• -oth, OTH, o'th', oth, tho, tho', thô

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hot
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Adjective

hot (comparative hoter, superlative hotst)

1. (nautical) right, on the right side

   Synonym: rechts

Derived terms

• van hot naar her

See also

• stuurboord

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hot.

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hotst)

1. (informal) hot, popular
2. (informal) hot, sexy, attractive

Inflection

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (xot?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hot/

Conjunction

hot

1. though

Particle

hot

1. Used to make a pronoun, adverb or determiner indefinite

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hoth, whote
• hate, hatte (northern)

Etymology

From Old English h?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/, /h?t/

Adjective

hot

1. hot

Noun

hot (uncountable)

1. hotness

Descendants

• English: hot
• Scots: hat, hait, hate
• Yola: hoat, hote

References

• “h??t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “h??t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pennsylvania German

Verb

hot

1. third-person singular present indicative of hawwe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xot/, [?xot?]

Adjective

hot (plural hot or hots)

1. hot; sexy

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish h?t n, from Old Norse hót n pl, from Proto-Germanic *hw?t? (“threat”), cognate with Gothic ???????????????? f (??ta). Related to *hw?tan? (“to attack, stab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/

Noun

hot n

1. a threat

Declension

Related terms

• bombhot
• hota
• hotbild
• hotbrev
• hotfull
• hotande
• mordhot
• terrorhot

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/, [h????t]

  Rhymes: -ú?t

Etymology 1

Compare Icelandic hót, contraction of Old Norse hvat.

Noun

hot m

1. A whit, a bit.

   n litn hot

   a little bit, a little piece

Etymology 2

Ablaut of Icelandic hvata (“to sting, jab,”) dialectal Norwegian hvæta (“to jab,”) and related to gwätt, wäti.

Noun

hot n (nominative & accusative definite singular hote)

1. A sting, pang.

   ja hav söm e hot ått brösten

   I feel a sting in my chest.

English

Etymology

From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wr?þ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wr?d (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High German reid (“cruel”), Old Norse reiðr (“angry”) (Danish vred, Swedish vred).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (UK, alternatively) IPA^(key): /???/
  • Homophone: wrath
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /???/

Adjective

wroth (comparative more wroth, superlative most wroth)

1. Full of anger; wrathful.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And to be wroth with one we love,

     Doth work like madness in the brain.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

   • 1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Part 3, Chapter 4

     Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools."

Synonyms

• wrath (rare)
• wrathful

Related terms

• wrath

Translations

References

• wroth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• wroth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -worth, Worth, throw, whort, worth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wrooth, wroþ

Etymology

From Old English wr?þ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”).

Adjective

wroth

1. Wrathful, wroth.