torrid

adj., -er, -est.

1. Parched with the heat of the sun; intensely hot.
2. Scorching; burning: the torrid noonday sun.
3. Passionate; ardent: a torrid love scene.
4. Hurried; rapid: set a torrid pace; torrid economic growth.

[Latin torridus, from torrēre, to parch.]

torridity tor·rid'i·ty or tor'rid·ness n.
torridly tor'rid·ly adv.

adjective

1. Marked by much heat: ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering. See hot/cold/lukewarm.
2. Fired with intense feeling: ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching. See feelings.

adj

Definition: sensuous
Antonyms: cold, cool, frigid, unsensual

adj

Definition: very hot
Antonyms: arctic, cold, freezing

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IN BRIEF: Charged and vigorously energetic.

Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none. — Thomas Carew (1595-1639)

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - brændende hed

Nederlands (Dutch)
snikheet, hartstochtelijk

Français (French)
adj. - torride

Deutsch (German)
adj. - sengend, glühend, erstickend heiß, ausgedörrt, verbrannt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - καυτερός, φλογισμένος, (μτφ.) παθιασμένος

Italiano (Italian)
torrido

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - tórrido, abrasador

Русский (Russian)
знойный, обжигающий, пылкий, страстный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - apasionado, tempestuoso, tórrido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - förtorkad, torr, bränd, solstekt, glödande, passionerad, lidelsefull

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
晒热的, 炎热的, 灼热的, 烘热的, 热情的, 狂热的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 曬熱的, 炎熱的, 灼熱的, 烘熱的, 熱情的, 狂熱的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 탄, 열렬한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 焼け焦げた, 乾ききった, 炎熱の, 熱烈な, 灼熱の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) متقد, حار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חם, לוהט, צחיח, נלהב‬

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