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calescent
adjective as in hot
Strongest matches
adjective as in pyretic
Weak matches
- baking
- blazing
- blistering
- boiling
- broiling
- burning
- close
- decalescent
- febrific
- febrile
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fiery
- flaming
- heated
- hectic
- humid
- igneous
- incandescent
- like an oven
- on fire
- ovenlike
- parching
- piping
- recalescent
- red
- roasting
- scalding
- scorching
- searing
- sizzling
- smoking
- steaming
- stuffy
- sultry
- summery
- sweltering
- sweltry
- thermogenic
- torrid
- tropic
- tropical
- very warm
- warm
- white
adjective as in roasting
Strong matches
adjective as in scalding
adjective as in searing
Strong matches
adjective as in sizzling
Strong matches
Example Sentences
And: “Scottsdale’s dry climate contradicts the clammy calescent of New Guinean condensation.”
Tisdale favors transitional words like quiescent, nascent, and calescent to make sentences quiver with dreamlike mutability; they are always changing and becoming.
Chefs — like Aaron Silverman behind the calescent Rose’s Luxury — are opening places where they live.
This calescent mode of proceeding was adopted with the idea of exciting a counter-irritation in the diseased part.
It should be brought up slowly to just above its calescent or hardening temperature.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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