heated
/'hi:tid/
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The family enjoys swimming in the heated pool during the chilly autumn afternoon.
Definition
- Adjective:
- Made warm or hot: Having had its temperature raised, often by an external source of heat.
- Marked by strong emotion or excitement: Characterized by intensity of feeling, often anger or passion, making a discussion or argument lively, intense, or angry.
Usage
- Describing Temperature: Used to describe an object or substance that has been warmed.
- Example: The heated towel was very relaxing.
- Describing Emotions/Arguments: Used to describe an exchange, discussion, or atmosphere that is intense, passionate, or angry.
- Example: The debate became very heated when they discussed politics.
Examples
- Adjective (Temperature):
- They jumped into the heated pool to escape the cold.
- Serve the food on a heated plate.
- Adjective (Emotion):
- The meeting ended with a heated exchange between the managers.
- It was a long and heated discussion about the company's future.
Advanced Usage
- "Heated up": An informal phrasal form meaning made hot or more intense.
- The soup was heated up in the microwave.
- Tensions heated up as the deadline approached.
- "Get/Grow heated": To become intense or angry.
- His voice got heated when his authority was questioned.
Variants and Related Words
- Heat (verb/noun): The action of making something hot or the quality of being hot.
- Heat the water until it boils.
- Heater (noun): A device for heating.
- We turned on the space heater.
- Heating (noun): The system or process of making a space warm.
- The building's heating is very efficient.
- Het (adj, dialectal): A colloquial or dialectal variant of 'heated', often in the phrase "het up" meaning agitated or excited.
- There's no need to get all het up about it.
Synonyms
- Warmed, hot (for temperature).
- Fierce, intense, passionate, vehement, angry (for emotion).
Related Phrases
- Heated debate/argument/discussion: A very intense and often angry exchange of opposing views.
- The new policy sparked a heated debate in parliament.
- Heated moment: A short period of intense emotion or conflict.
- In a heated moment, she said things she later regretted.
The family enjoys swimming in the heated pool during the chilly autumn afternoon.
Adjective
- marked by emotional heat; vehement
- a heated argument
- made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')
- a heated swimming pool
- wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana
- he was all het up and sweaty