Fashionable vs Hot - What's the difference?
fashionable | hot |
Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
(archaic) genteel; well-bred
* Shakespeare
A person; a fop
* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition=
, passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition=
, passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}
Of an object, having a high temperature.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
Of the weather, causing the air to be hot.
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Of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
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Feverish.
Of food, spicy.
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(lb) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
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Stolen.
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(lb) Electrically charged
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(lb) Radioactive.
(lb) Of a person, very physically or sexually attractive.
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Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
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Popular; in demand.
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Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
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Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
*1938 , Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:
*:"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
*2002 , Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:
*:The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
Fresh; just released.
*1960 , Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:
*:A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot .
*2000 , David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:
*:Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot .
Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
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To heat; to make or become hot.
To become lively or exciting.
As nouns the difference between fashionable and hot
is that fashionable is a person; a fop while hot is a whit, a bit.As an adjective fashionable
is characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.fashionable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a fashionable''' dress; a '''fashionable man
- the fashionable''' philosophy; '''fashionable opinions
- fashionable society
- Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
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