white-hot

Examples

• All

• For a split second, out of the corner of his eye, Vesquith saw the rock grow white hot.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The coals still glared white-hot in the middle of the old cast-iron monster.

  Fiction book (1990)

• You can heat this wire to white-hot, and it will still tell you the exact same story.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The sun was directly overhead, white-hot and burning.

  Fiction book (1992)

• In its center, the sun lies, a bright, white-hot ball pulsing toward the full noon.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "There goes that hatch." Greg followed her look, watching as white-hot metal flared away on all sides of the hatch.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I looked up at the prairie sun, glowing like a white-hot marble in the sky.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The interior of the synagogue was a white-hot furnace; tiles of the roof glowed from the heat that devoured the rafters.

  Fiction book (1991)

• As the stars burned brightly, the supernova shone with a white-hot brilliance that lit up the entire galaxy.

• Under the intense pressure, the coal transformed into a white-hot mass, burning fiercely in the furnace.

Synonyms

R

red-hot

vswhite-hot

17 4.1

So warm it glows red

highlights a very pale bright shine instead of a warm colored glow

I

incandescent

vswhite-hot

• Specialized

15 6.7

Giving off light because it is very hot

focuses on a very pale bright glow rather than a general heat glow

W

white

vswhite-hot

12 2.3

Very hot and glowing with a bright pale color

is the same idea but expressed as a compound adjective with a hyphen

C

candescent

vswhite-hot

• Literature

1 9.9

Glowing because it is very hot, like metal or coals

emphasizes a very pale bright glow rather than general heated shining

Antonyms

C

cold

318 1.0

The feeling of low temperature on your body

How Hot

white-hot

7 5.3

scorching

15 3.7

red-hot

17 4.1

hot

∞ 1.0

warm

∞ 1.0

cool

296 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology