heated
/ˈhiːtɪd
/adjective
1Made warm or hot: a heated swimming pool...
- Faster-than-fast oriental food is on offer here with all the popular dishes keeping warm under heated lights.
- Among many other features including a heated seat and warm air dryer, it uses fuzzy logic to establish your pattern of use.
- Imagine stepping out of the shower onto a warm custom heated floor.
Synonyms
made warm, made hot, warmed up;
reheated;
hot, piping hot
2Inflamed with passion or conviction: she had a heated argument with an official...
- Everywhere you go, you hear people of either side joined in animated discussion or heated argument on this issue.
- She repeatedly demonstrates that they are spiritually damning as the evils of heated passion often are not.
- During the passionate and often heated debate councillors stressed the increase was a result of recommendations made by an independent panel.
Synonyms
vehement, passionate, impassioned, animated, spirited, ‘lively’, intense, fiery;
angry, bitter, furious, fierce, violent, frenzied, raging, stormy, tempestuous
rare fervid, perfervid, passional, full-hearted
excited, roused, animated, inflamed, worked up, wound up, keyed up;
angry, furious, enraged
informal het up, in a state, uptight
Derivatives
heatedly
/ adverb ...- The world's major powers, through the Security Council, are publicly - and heatedly - debating a response to a major threat.
- Among the most heatedly debated question was: ‘What is the one most important thing to improve the health service?’
- These voters probably all massively, heatedly, psychotically disagree with one another about who should be president.