torrid

adjvery hot
adjsensuous

Synonyms for torrid

adj very hot

Antonyms for torrid

Word Origin & History

1580s, in torrid zone "region of the earth between the tropics," from Latin torrida zona, from fem. of torridus "dried with heat, scorching hot," from torrere "to parch," from PIE root *ters- "to dry" (see terrain). Sense of "very hot" is first attested 1610s.

Example Sentences for torrid

But in the height of summer the heat is torrid on the Roof of France.

Bitter indeed must be the wintry blast, torrid the rays of summer here.

Then it entered into a zone of torrid light which the sun threw on the waves.

We have valleys and we have mountains; we have torrid and we have temperate zones.

It seemed as if the torrid days of late summer were harder to bear than July had been.

The temperature must be kept as warm there as in the Torrid Zone.

There are some cities in the Torrid Zone, but none of them are very large.

That region is called the Torrid Zone because “torrid” means “hot.”

Day after day dragged through the hours, and Florence grew thinned and torrid.

We stand upon a torrid strand, yet gaze upon an icy mountain.

torrid

Synonyms for torrid

Antonyms for torrid

boiling

broiling

burning

dry

equatorial

torrid

Synonyms for torrid

Antonyms for torrid

More words related to torrid

blistering

boiling

broiling

burning

dry

equatorial