The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HEAT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Intensity, metaphorically crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEAT | 100 % | 4 |
Why may HEAT be the right solution?
The word "heat" is often used metaphorically to describe a high level of intensity, such as in a competitive situation or an argument. Therefore, "Intensity, metaphorically" can be appropriately answered with "HEAT".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Intensity, metaphorically
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Crossword Answer definitions
HEAT noun- Thermal energy.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- The police.
- One or more firearms.
- A fastball.
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- A hot spell.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- The output of a heating system.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
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