torrid

3 definitions found

torrid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Torrid \Tor"rid\, a. [L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to
     burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See Thirst.]
     1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
        "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." --Milton.
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     2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning;
        parching. "Torrid heat." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth,
        included between the tropics, over which the sun is
        vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is
        always great.
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torrid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  torrid
      adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
             ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
             fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
             appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
             fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
             torrid]
      2: emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid
         dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid
         rhythms"
      3: extremely hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the
         dessert"

torrid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "torrid":
     amorous, ardent, arid, baking, blazing, blistering, blistery,
     boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, cooking,
     ebullient, erotic, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming,
     flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell,
     hot-blooded, humid, impassioned, inflamed, intense, like a furnace,
     like an oven, lustful, muggy, overheated, overwarm, parched,
     parching, passionate, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding,
     scorched, scorching, searing, seething, sexy, simmering, sizzling,
     sizzling hot, smoking hot, steaming, steamy, stifling, sudorific,
     sultry, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, tropical,
     white-hot