scorching
Other forms: scorchingly; scorchings
Use the adjective scorching to mean extremely hot. The scorching heat from a wildfire tar on roads and char nearby houses and trees.
There's a huge difference between a warm day and a scorching one; the word implies a brutal heat. If the weather is scorching, you'll be desperate for air conditioning, iced drinks, or the relief of a cold shower. You can also use it to mean "harsh," like a critic's scorching review of a really terrible movie. Etymologists suspect that scorching is derived from the Old Norse skorpna, "to be shriveled."
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hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface“scorching heat”synonyms:hotused of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
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capable of causing burns“it was scorching hot”
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Vocabulary lists containing scorching
Both a Mars rover and the daughter of a NASA scientist struggle to find the resilience to overcome their troubles through space and time.
In this fifth book of the historical fiction I Survived series, eleven-year-old orphan Leo Ross pretends to be a ghost to scare a couple of thieves, but then, the ground beneath him begins to shake.
This first book of The Kairos Files series introduces Hector Myles Griggs, a sixth grader whose sudden ability to turn invisible protects him from human threats at Florida's St. Lawrence's Catholic School for Boys, yet lands him in another dimension with a monster that feeds on fear.