HOT STUFF Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

hot stuff

noun

Definition of hot stuff

as in something else

something very good of its kind it sounds pretty ordinary now, but their music was hot stuff in its time

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Recent Examples of hot stuff September is no different, and there's tons of hot stuff to choose from this week, including some all-time classics. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 Yeah, who would’ve thought that putting hot stuff up your rectum could be risky. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff. — David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025 At the time, Walk Score was hot stuff, building an online product that would quantify walkability by address. — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 But ketamine, as my colleagues Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton reported earlier this year, has become hot stuff among the rich and famous. — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024 Wednesday warms a bit before the really hot stuff makes a comeback for the Fourth, when shower and storms chance could return as well. — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 30 June 2024

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Noun

You would have been treated like gods and lived forever in beauty.

— Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
The idea that beauty comes from within never entered the discussion.

— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

Sequenced at the center of a three-track medley, its death-dream logic deliberately evokes the SMiLE era’s dark, confusing edge.

— Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
In a bucket hat and without a care in the world, Murray speaks kindly but candidly about making his buddy Coyne’s TV dream come true.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.

— Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of phenomenon

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