1.
[syn: heated, heated up, het, het up]
2. marked by emotional heat; vehement;
- Example: "a heated argument"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
heated \heated\ adj.
1. characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling;
as, a heated argument. Opposite of dispassionate,
passionless. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, impassioned,
perfervid, torrid.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or
devices; as, a heated fishing cabin. Opposite of
unheated. [WordNet sense 2]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb.
n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h[=ae]tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See
Hot.]
1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow
warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the
like.
[1913 Webster]
Heat me these irons hot. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make
feverish.
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Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak.
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3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to
excess; to inflame, as the passions.
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A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heated
adj 1: 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" [syn: heated, heated up, het, het up]
2: marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"