sizzling
- adjective
- /ˈsɪzlɪŋ/
- Thinking about my movie-star family and the sizzling meat on the grill had made my stomach growl.
- sizzling hot
- sizzling sound
- smell of sizzling
The sun for like an hour and a half, thinking that'd be OK, just sizzling.
- The sun for like an hour and a half, thinking that'd be OK, just sizzling.
Examples
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A sizzling and crackling noise accompanied its wild flight.
Fiction book (2001) -
There was a sizzling sound.
Fiction book (1994) -
I mean that... when she brought it to our table, it was still sizzling!
Blog text (21) -
It's not going to be aesthetic, but like whatever, my God, it's sizzling from the ice cream.
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A sizzling sound is heard moving down from his throat to his belly.
Fiction book (1996) -
Cook it up on a stove for 20 minutes, and it has been irrevocably changed into a juicy, sizzling slab of flavor.
Blog text (17) -
He could feel her watching him for a response, and he carefully pressed each chicken breast with his spatula, making satisfying sizzling noises.
Fiction book (2002) -
Night and the sizzling campfire as Ned empties the grease from the frying pan into the fire.
Fiction book (1993) -
Sizzling potatoes, bacon, and eggs—jars empty and pots of coffee vanish.
Fiction book (1998) -
The sound of the sizzling bacon in the pan made my mouth water.
Synonyms
Having a high temperature and able to burn your skin
Very hot and like burning flames
So warm it glows red
Heated until it glows white
Extremely hot, like strong sun that can burn skin
Feels very hot, like you are inside an oven
Very hot and making a sharp steam sound, like food from the oven or a pan
Very hot and able to burn skin
A very hot burning pain that hurts a lot
Very hot so you want to find shade and drink water
Used before an adjective to show a very strong feeling
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sizzling comes from sizzle, a word that copies the hot, hissing noise 'to hiss' made when food fries. That's why sizzling describes something very hot or making a hissing sound.