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What is the adjective for melting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs melt, molt, moult and melt down which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

molten

Melted.
Made from a melted substance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Glowing red-hot.
Synonyms:

melted, heated, igneous, glowing, smelted, red-hot

Examples:

“Steam contained in the molten lava is thought by Shaler and others to cause the molten rock to rise and overflow.”

melting

Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
Synonyms:

liquefying, thawed, liquescent, reducing, softening, fluid, watery, liquefied, flowing, melted, molten, runny, aqueous, running, thin, uncongealed, fluent, hydrous, fluidic, ichorous, liquiform, dissolved, moist, moving, sloppy, gooey, viscous, sappy, serous, pulpy, succulent, liquid, splashing, juicy, solvent, deliquesced … more

Examples:

“The fire's heat warmed the ice until there was frost and then melting frost, and then the melting frost transformed into a frost giant and into a cow.”

meltaway

Used in the names of various recipes for cakes and cookies that seem to melt in the mouth.

moltable

(obsolete) Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible.

melted

Being in a liquid state as a result of melting.
Synonyms:

liquid, fluid, liquefied, deliquesced, flowing, molten, thawed, watery, runny, running, aqueous, thin, uncongealed, fluent, unsolidified, serous, juicy, gooey, fluidic, streaming, soupy, slap, hydrous, dissolved, sloppy, melting, ichorous, liquiform, moving, viscous, sappy, liquescent, pulpy, succulent, splashing, solvent, moist, fluxional, water, fluidical, fluxive, able to flow easily, in solution, waterlike, gushing, teeming, rolling, rippling, rushing, overrun … more

Examples:

“The foundation of all these sauces is the melted butter.”

“When thoroughly melted lava cools rapidly, it resembles glass and is called volcanic glass, or obsidian.”

“It is customary to pour the melted alloy into the melted steel or malleable iron.”

melty

Having a high tendency to melt.
Examples:

“What brings more joy than a melty, gooey, decadent grilled cheese sandwich?”

“End your meal with flatbread, warm from the griddle, enfolding a melty milk chocolate and mashed-banana filling.”

“This grapefruit sized meatball is baked with melty mozzarella and tangy marinara, and when it arrives at the table, customers are dumbfounded.”

meltable

Capable of being melted.
Examples:

“The similarity of meltable thermoplastic polymers to metals has prompted the extension of techniques used in metalworking.”

“The black suit on the meltable Rudy clashed slightly with the dark blue version worn by the mayor.”

“The consistency is uniformly meltable, soft, easy to slice, and slightly elastic.”

meltproof

Resistant to melting.

moulten

(obsolete) Having moulted.
Examples:

“Then he tried silicon carbide which held the carbon combined with the silica until glaze melt when the carbon was then able to reduce the oxides in the moulten glaze.”

molted

simple past tense and past participle of molt
Synonyms:

sloughed, shed, exfoliated, sluffed, slipped, exuviated, peeled, flaked, cast, doffed, scaled, skinned, decorticated, casted off, took off, taken off, pulled off, let fall, sloughed off, moulted, mewed, flaked off, let drop, desquamated, molt, discarded, dropped, scaled off, peeled off, threw off, thrown off, gotten rid of, got rid of … more

molting

present participle of molt
Synonyms:

moulted

simple past tense and past participle of moult
Synonyms:

shed, molted, molt, exfoliated, exuviated, peeled, sloughed, sluffed, cast, flaked, mewed, slipped, discarded, dropped, scaled, skinned, sloughed off, casted off, peeled off, flaked off, let drop, let fall, threw off, thrown off, got rid of, gotten rid of, thrown aside, threw aside … more

moulting

present participle of moult
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