"I am feeling hot", I said to my father, of course referring to weather.
He said that that sentence conveys that you are referring to sex and you should not use such sentences.
How should I convey that I am hot due to weather only?
Learn English – How to talk about feeling hot without referring to sexuality
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On a sweltering day, the intended meaning should be picked up on easily enough. But your father might be helping you out by pointing out a potential double-entendre – sometimes those can be embarrassing if said around the wrong group of people. For example, if a teenage girl is surrounded by teenage boys, "I feel hot" might not be the best way to word her feelings about the hot day. (Even if they know what she means, they might start snickering anyway.)
You ask for an alternative, so I'll give you one:
That's a bit figurative, too, so you could also say:
Here's another one:
Most of the time, though, "I'm feeling hot" is just fine by itself, and there's no need to find a more ‘sterile’ alternative. Most people know what you mean when you're talking about the heat in a room, or the heat outside on a sweltering day. I'm not recommending that the phrase be avoided altogether, but it's worth remembering that it can be interpreted in more than one way.
NOTE: Some earlier comments seemed to be skeptical about this double meaning, so I'll back my assertion up with a few examples. When these bloggers write:
they are not meaning that you'll need to sit near a fan and sip a cold drink to cool off. Moreover, these authors were dishing out some fashion advice for Valentine's Day (which is celebrated in February), so we can be pretty sure that weren't talking about hot weather, either.
That said, even in fashion circles, the phrase can be used both ways. There's a big difference between hot & confident and hot & itchy. Check out these excerpts:
In those sentences, follow-on remarks make it clear that "feel hot" in that context wasn't intended to mean "feel sexy."