Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot-button

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: hot-but-ton
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of hot button.

adj

Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy.

Example Sentences

"As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits."
"What will trigger my hot-button?"
"Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan"
"a hot-button issue"
"The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention."
"It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete."

Inflected Forms

hot-buttons (plural) hot button (alternative) hotbutton (alternative)

Questions

What does hot-button mean?: Alternative form of hot button.

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