heated
Americanadjective
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made hot or hotter; warmed.
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excited; inflamed; vehement.
a heated discussion.
- Synonyms:
- fierce, impassioned, passionate
adjective
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made hot; warmed
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impassioned or highly emotional
Other Word Forms
- heatedly adverb
- heatedness noun
- unheated adjective
- well-heated adjective
Etymology
Origin of heated
Example Sentences
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The news-reading public used spirit gossip, spirit cartoons, and spirit love stories as distractions from the realization that there seemed to be no peaceful way forward on the increasingly heated issue of slavery’s expansion.
From Literature
In Europe, they have even bigger plans - the Netherlands is aiming for a quarter of homes to be heated using geothermal by 2050.
From BBC
Plastic materials used in food packaging, cosmetics, and many everyday products can break down into microscopic fragments when heated, worn down, or chemically processed.
From Science Daily
There appears to be a much more heated and immediate protest movement and debate in this context.
From Salon
Before the plate boundary moved into the area, the oceanic crust there had already become unusually thick and heated.
From Science Daily
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