white-hot

[ hwahyt-hot, wahyt- ]

/ ˈʰwaɪtˈhɒt, ˈwaɪt- /

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adjective

extremely hot.

showing white heat.

exceedingly enthusiastic, ardent, angry, devoted, etc.; impassioned; perfervid: a fierce, white-hot loyalty to the king.

Nearby words

white-ground, white-haired, white-haired boy, white-handed gibbon, white-headed, white-hot, white-knuckle, white-knuckle paddler, white-livered, white-pine weevil, white-robed

Origin of white-hot

First recorded in 1810–20

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for white-hot

Or maybe, just maybe, he will zing the president on a white-hot issue dominating every waking moment for, um, some voters.
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But publicly, it chose to say little, hoping to maintain a neutral position in a white-hot international scandal.
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Over the past few decades, the study of telomeres has risen to become a white-hot area of very legitimate scientific research.
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Over the past few decades, research into telomeres has become a "white-hot area of science," says Singer.
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She tattooed her wrist with the letter E (for Edouard) by pressing a piece of white-hot metal there.
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Cell after secret cell of her brain caught the fire, and blazed with white-hot indignation.
Scarlet and Hyssop|E. F. Benson
As he went down the field men were repelled from his Robot-like body as they might had he been a thing of white-hot metal.
The Galloping Ghost|Roy J. Snell
We may raise the temperature, say, of iron, until it is white-hot.
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But I saw the worm-thing come creeping out, white-hot, vivid as incandescent silver, the live heart of essential fire.
Lilith|George MacDonald
But with the sudden accession of madness, hate had blazed up in her, white-hot, and she had attempted to stab him.
That Affair at Elizabeth|Burton E. Stevenson

British Dictionary definitions for white-hot

white-hot

adjective

at such a high temperature that white light is emitted

informal in a state of intense emotion

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white-hot

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white-hot

adjective