scorching
/ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ
/adjective
1Very hot: the scorching July sun...
- Almost immediately, his calf swelled up, and the skin covering it grew scorching hot.
- Around me, frustrated passengers began to speculate about the city overheating in scorching temperatures.
- Farmers on the Continent battled against an exceptionally dry summer and scorching temperatures that seriously damaged crops.
Synonyms
extremely hot, red-hot, unbearably hot, baking (hot), blazing, flaming, fiery, burning, blistering, searing, sweltering, torrid, tropical, like an oven, like a furnace, like a blowtorch;
parching, withering;
North American broiling
informal boiling (hot), sizzling
1.1(Of criticism) harsh; severe.
Synonyms
fierce, savage, scathing, withering, blistering, searing, devastating, stringent, severe, harsh, stinging, biting, mordant, trenchant, caustic, virulent, vitriolic
1.2 informal Very fast: she set a scorching pace...
- Fear is an alien emotion to the 18-year-old sensation, whose biggest asset is his scorching pace.
- No English daily is expanding at the scorching pace of these.
- Profit growth had slowed from 2004's scorching pace.
Derivatives
scorchingly
- Ten minutes and a scorchingly confusing user interface later, we'd ordered our pizza.
- The news for today, apart from the fact that Munich is scorchingly hot, is that I apparently have a first class honours degree.
- But of course he says this, and a great deal more, far more wittily and scorchingly every time he goes into a recording studio.