Torrid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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