scorching

adjective

1 the scorching July sun:

extremely hot, red-hot, unbearably hot, baking (hot), blazing, flaming, fiery, burning, blistering, searing, sweltering, torrid, tropical, like an oven, like a furnace, like a blowtorch;

parching, withering;

North American broiling;

informal boiling (hot), sizzling.

▷antonyms freezing.

2 he faced scorching criticism:

fierce, savage, scathing, withering, blistering, searing, devastating, stringent, severe, harsh, stinging, biting, mordant, trenchant, caustic, virulent, vitriolic.

▷antonyms mild.