Meanings
- not comparableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baking, hot: very hot in a way that involves baking (in an oven or as if in an oven).
Near-synonyms: roasting, baked
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Watch out for that exhaust pipe! It's baking hot!
Watch out — the chrome parts of the car are baking hot from the sun.
Synonyms: baking, roasting, baked · Antonyms: freezing cold, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill
- broadlyidiomaticnot comparableVery hot.
I've got to get out of this coat! I'm baking hot!
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Near-synonyms: smoking hot, boiling hot, piping hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming; see also Thesaurus:hot
The weather was baking hot.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1954, II. v., page 121Synonyms: baking, roasting, baked, smoking hot, boiling hot, piping hot, scalding hot, steaming hot · Antonyms: freezing cold, algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys, brumal, chill
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baking, hot: very hot in a way that involves baking (in an oven or as if in an oven).
adjectiveVery hot.
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baking hot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baking%20hot
“baking hot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baking%20hot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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