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warming

warming

1.3
To make a part of the body feel hot
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɔrmɪŋ/
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  • The warming blanket enveloped her, providing comfort on the cold night.

It is like the most delicious, soul warming drink on the planet.

Examples

  • After a long day, she enjoyed a warming cup of tea by the fire.

  • It is like the most delicious, soul warming drink on the planet.

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  • It's such like a nice warming, comforting scent to me.

  • It's a wonderful, warming, homely potato.

  • The warming sun made the chilly morning feel much more pleasant.

Synonyms

calefacient
vswarming
  • Specialized
9.9

Causes the skin to feel warm when put on

causes a general sensation of heat not limited to applied substances

Antonyms

cooling
60 2.1

A drop in temperature that makes something colder

Compounds

global warming
190 2.5

A gradual rise in Earth's average temperature caused mainly by burning coal, oil, and gas

greenhouse warming
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A rise in Earth's temperature when gases in the air trap the Sun's heat

warming pan
  • Archaic
8.2

A long metal pan with a handle and lid filled with hot coals to warm a bed before sleeping

warming pan
4.8

A pan used to keep food warm before serving

How Warm

scorching
3.7
toasty
  • Informal
18 2.7
warming
1.3
warmish
1 3.4
cool
65 1.0
cold
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

warming positive

Morphology

warming = warm (transparent) = warm + ing

Standard present-participial/adjectival formation from the verb 'warm', yielding 'making warm' or 'producing warmth', which is predictable for learners.

Etymology

The word warming also comes from warm ('comfortably hot') plus the ending -ing, and it is used to describe something that makes you feel warm or gives heat. So a warming pad or cream is called 'warming' because it produces heat and makes your body feel warmer.