heated
Americanadjective
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made hot or hotter; warmed.
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excited; inflamed; vehement.
a heated discussion.
- Synonyms:
- fierce, impassioned, passionate
adjective
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made hot; warmed
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impassioned or highly emotional
Other Word Forms
- heatedly adverb
- heatedness noun
- unheated adjective
- well-heated adjective
Etymology
Origin of heated
Example Sentences
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But the most poignant and heated query at the breakfast table is: Did you get the salmon?
From Salon
Huitzilin exited his vehicle holding up his own camera phone alongside his wife, and the two groups got into a heated exchange, according to video played in court.
From Los Angeles Times
OpenAI is planning to go public in the fourth quarter in what has become a heated race with rival Anthropic to reach the public markets.
Such heated disagreements historically have been considered healthy at the company, where “Have Backbone” and “Disagree and Commit” are among the company’s leadership principles.
The news-reading public used spirit gossip, spirit cartoons, and spirit love stories as distractions from the realization that there seemed to be no peaceful way forward on the increasingly heated issue of slavery’s expansion.
From Literature
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