Torrid
['tɒrɪd] or ['tɔrɪd]
Definition
(adj.) extremely hot; 'the torrid noonday sun'; 'sultry sands of the dessert' .
(adj.) emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; 'a torrid dance'; 'torrid jazz bands'; 'hot trumpets and torrid rhythms' .
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
(a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
Editor: Marilyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dried, parched, scorched.
Editor: Nita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hot, burning, arid, heated, parching, scorching, sultry
ANT:Temperate, fresh, cool, breezy, gelid, frigid, arctic, brumal, wintry
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Definition
adj. burning or parching: violently hot: dried with heat.—ns. Torrid′ity Torr′idness.—Torrid zone the broad belt round the earth betwixt the tropics on either side of the equator.
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Examples
- Hence the cold air on the tops of mountains, and snow on some of them all the year, even in the torrid zone. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The temperate and torrid zones of the world are ransacked in order to secure the wood, the minerals and the animal substances, all of which are necessary to provide the means of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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