Meaning & use
heat
The quality of being hot; thermal energy that can be felt or measured as temperature.
See it in a sentence
The heat from the oven made the whole kitchen uncomfortably warm.
There was real heat in the argument by the time voices started rising.
A note on using this word
Heat can describe both a physical temperature and figurative intensity, as in the heat of an argument or competition.
Words with a similar meaning
warmthwarmness
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Words with an opposite meaning
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