Torrid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Parched with the heat of the sun; intensely hot.
  • adj. Scorching; burning: the torrid noonday sun.
  • adj. Passionate; ardent: a torrid love scene.
  • adj. Hurried; rapid: set a torrid pace; torrid economic growth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Very hot and dry.
  • adj. Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
  • adj. Full of difficulty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Parched; dried with heat.
  • adj. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Parched and dry with heat, especially of the sun; arid; sultry; hot; specifically, noting a zone of the earth's surface.
  • Burning; scorching; parching.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. extremely hot
  • adj. emotionally charged and vigorously energetic
  • adj. characterized by intense emotion
  • Equivalent
    hot    passionate   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    parched    burning    parching    burnt    hot   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    florid    horrid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    subtropical    swelter    tropic    muggy    equatorial    steamy    subarctic    arctic    wintry    humid