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Definition: Torrential |
TorrentialAdjective1. Relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent; "torrential erosion"; "torrential adaptations seen in some aquatic forms". 2. Resembling a torrent in force and abundance; "torrential applause"; "torrential abuse"; "the torrential facility and fecundity characteristic of his style"- Winthrop Sargeant. 3. Pouring in abundance; "torrential rains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "torrential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Torrential |
| Specialty definitions using "torrential": gully-washer ♦ river drift ♦ sediment laden torrent ♦ torrential catchment, torrential river, torrential watershed. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients exsanguinating with torrential bleeding from peptic ulcer represent a special case. The panel agrees that endoscopic localization and treatment should be attempted in concert with the surgeon and without undue delay. (references) | |
Political Rights | Swaziland | However, the decision to open polling stations for further voting a week after the election because of torrential rains led to irregularities, including persons being found with multiple copies of registration certificates. (references) |
Travel | Nigeria | Roads flood in torrential rainstorms. (references) |
Mexico | Rains, often torrential, usually come in the late afternoon and can tie up traffic. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Torrential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torrential" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 162 | 24,580 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "torrential": torrential bedload deposits ♦ torrential catchment ♦ torrential flow in open channels ♦ torrential rain ♦ torrential river ♦ torrential stream ♦ torrential wash ♦ torrential watershed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
torrential tribute | 7 |
rain torrential | 6 |
torrential | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "torrential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si rrëke, i rrebeshtë. (various references) | |
Arabic | متدفق (current, effluent, flowing out, outflowing, running, streaming), مدرار, هاطل, غزير (abundant, bumper, copious, exuberant, flush, hard, massive, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, redundant, superabundant, voluminous), سيلي, جارف (sweeping, torrent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стремителен (brash, headlong, heady, impetuous, puffy, slashing, soaring, tearaway, vehement), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), пороен (driving). (various references) | |
Chinese | 瀧 (name of a river in Guangdong), "". (various references) | |
Czech | proudící. (various references) | |
Danish | rivende strømning i åben kanal (torrential flow in open channels). (various references) | |
Dutch | torrentiële stroming (torrential flow in open channels), stroming in een open kanaal (torrential flow in open channels). (various references) | |
French | torrentiel. (various references) | |
German | wolkenbruchartig, sturzflutartig (torrentially), strömend (gutting, pouring, streaming, trooping), reißend (massive, raging, rapacious, rapid, ripping, searing, tearing, wrenching), überwältigend (daunting, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, stunning, thrilling, uproarious, vast). (various references) | |
Greek | καταρρακτώδης, χειμαρρώδησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שוטף (current, flowing, fluent, rapid, swift). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zuhogó (beating, mill stream, pelting, shoot), áradó (flooding, surging). (various references) | |
Italian | torrenziale (pouring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沛然 (sprouting up). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいぜ" (lung cancer, meeting, setting a place or the table, sprouting up). (various references) | |
Korean | 격 한 (Drastic, strenuous). (various references) | |
Manx | thooilleydagh (diluvial). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrentialtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torrencial, impetuoso caudaloso. (various references) | |
Romanian | torenţial (torrentially). (various references) | |
Russian | текущий быстрым потоком, обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, riotous, ungrudging), проливной (pelting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | silovit (violent), obilan (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, flush, full, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, unsparing), bujan (ample, curvaceous, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, thick, wild). (various references) | |
Spanish | torrencial (driving, pelting, pouring). (various references) | |
Swedish | strid (action, battle, combat, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, discord, dispute, engagement, feud, fight, fray, rapid, scuffle, struggle, tussle, war), strömmande (flowing). (various references) | |
Turkish | sel ile ilgili, sel gibi (pouring), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), akıcı (diffluent, facile, fastmoving, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, mellifluous, runny, smooth, speaking, voluble). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рясний (abundant, ample, copious, exuberant, fertile, lavish, opulent, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich), швидкоплинний (fleeting, fugitive, galloping, profluent, transient), заливний (pelting, pouring). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | như thác, cu"n cuộn (popply). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | torrens, torrente, torrentem, torrentes, torrenti, torrentibus, torrentis, torrentium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "torrential": torrentially. (additional references) | |
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"Torrential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tofranil, torenias, torential, torrencial, torrentail, torrenti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "torrential" (pronounced tôre"nkhul or tôre"nshul) |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, tangential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, substantial, insubstantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u l | confidential, essential, experiential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, potential, quintessential. |
| 4 | -n sh u l | financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | inertial, antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, spatial, special, superficial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, uncontroversial, unofficial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: literator, natrolite. | |
-2 letters: anterior, nitrator, oriental, relation, retailor, retirant, tolerant, trotline. | |
-3 letters: aileron, alienor, elation, intreat, iterant, latrine, loriner, nattier, nitrate, ratline, rattier, rattler, realtor, relator, reliant, retinal, retinol, retrain, retrial, terrain, tertial, tertian, toenail, torrent, tortile, trailer, trainer, traitor, trenail, triolet, tritone. | |
-4 letters: aliner, antler, aroint, artier, atoner, attire, attorn, entail, entoil, eolian. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: interorbital, interpolator, torrentially. | |
+3 letters: intercortical, interpellator, interpolators, interrelation, intertropical, nonretractile, retranslation. | |
+4 letters: antiregulatory, intercorrelate, interpellators, interrelations, intervalometer, perturbational, retranslations, ultramodernist. | |
+5 letters: autocorrelation, dorsiventrality, dorsoventrality, enterobacterial, intercorrelated, intercorrelates, interrogational, interrogatively, intervalometers, intraperitoneal, irrationalities, malpractitioner, orchestrational, proportionately, remonstratively, retroperitoneal, transliteration, trigonometrical, ultramodernists. | |
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