scorching

The word “scorching” has 2 syllables: scorch-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈskɔːr.tʃɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for scorching?

In the thesaurus, “scorching” has 69 synonyms and 60 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for scorching along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for scorching

air-drying
ardent
baking
blazing
boiling
broiling
burning
canicular
charring
cremating
dehumidifying
dehydrating
desiccating
draining
drying
enflamed
enflaming
evaporating
fervent
fervid
feverish
fiery
firing
flushed
glowing
heated
hot
igneous
igniting
incinerating
inflamed
inflaming
kindling
lighting
molten
muggy
mummifying
overheated
parching
piping hot
red
red-hot
reheated
roasting
scalding
scathing
searing
seething
shriveling
shrivelling
singeing
sizzling
snug
steamy
sultry
summerlike
summery
superheated
sweltering
toasty
torrid
tropical
ultrahot
warm
warmed
warmish
white-hot
withering
wizening

Antonyms for scorching

algid
arctic
bathing
benumbed
bitter
blizzardly
bone-chilling
chill
chilled
chilly
cold
coldish
cool
cooled
coolish
dampening
damping
deluging
dipping
dousing
dowsing
drenching
drowning
dunking
flooding
freezing
frigid
frosty
frozen
glacial
humidifying
hydrating
ice-cold
iced
icy
inundating
moistening
nippy
numb
overflowing
refrigerated
rehydrating
saturating
shivering
snappy
snowy
soaking
sopping
sousing
subfreezing
submerging
subzero
swamping
unheated
washing
watering
waterlogging
wetting
wintery
wintry

Meanings of scorching

verb
1. To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it.
2. To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy.
3. (To cause) to become scorched or singed.
4. To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
6. To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
7. To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
noun
1. The act or result of something being scorched.
adjective
1. Very hot.
2. Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering.
3. (Of speed when driving, running, etc.) very high.

Example Sentences

We spent the afternoon under the scorching sun at the beach.
The pan was scorching hot when he touched it.
A scorching wind blew across the barren land.
She ran inside after stepping onto the scorching pavement barefoot.
He delivered a scorching critique of the movie during the review.

On this page you'll find 129 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to scorching, such as: air-drying, algid, arctic, ardent, baking, bathing, benumbed.

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