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Definition: Torrid |
TorridAdjective1. 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". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "torrid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Torrid \Tor"rid\, adjective. [Latin expression torridus, from torrere to parch, to burn, akin to English Thist: compare to the French expression torride. See Thirst.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TorridSynonyms: ardent (adj), burning(a) (adj), fervent (adj), fervid (adj), fiery (adj), impassioned (adj), perfervid (adj), sultry (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking. Verb: baking . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Torrid |
| English words defined with "torrid": Analemma, ardent, Ascians ♦ burning ♦ fervent, fervid, fiery ♦ impassioned ♦ perfervid ♦ Subtorrid, sultry ♦ Temperate Zone, Torridness, trade wind, tropic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "torrid": JANITOR. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Torrid Toreador (1942) Torrid Zone (1940) | |
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 | Tropics; equatorial; hot; humid; lush; steamy; sticky; stifling; sultry; sweat box; sweltering; torrid; tropic; vacation; relaxation; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Economic History | Djibouti | Climate: Torrid and dry. (references) |
Somalia | Climate: Principally desert; December to February--northeast monsoon, moderate temperatures in north, and very hot in the south; May to October--southwest monsoon, torrid in the north, and hot in the south; irregular rainfall; hot and humid periods (tangambili) between monsoons. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Torrid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torrid" is used about 52 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% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "torrid": torrid zone. 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 |
torrid | 369 |
torrid clothing | 32 |
taylor torrid | 11 |
store torrid | 9 |
clothes torrid | 7 |
clothing store torrid | 6 |
romance torrid | 6 |
boutique torrid | 4 |
coupon torrid | 4 |
torrid tale | 3 |
torrid zone | 3 |
bit torrid | 3 |
hot topic torrid | 3 |
code discount torrid | 2 |
com torrid | 2 |
news.com torrid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "torrid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përvëlues (burning, fiery, scalding, withering), i nxehtë (ardent, burning, earnest, fervent, fiery, glowing, heated, hot, red-hot, scalding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متقد (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, vehement), حار (cordial, hot, nice and warm, peppery, thermal), خمسيني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), горещ (aglow, burning, devout, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, high-spirited, hot, intense, scorching, strong, thermal), зноен (scorching, sultry), жарък (ardent, fervent, sultry, violent), палещ (burning, fervent, scorching), пламенен (ardent, ebullient, fervent, fiery, flaming, flamy, glowing, incandescent, passionate, red blooded, zealous), изсушен от слънцето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyprahlý (adust, parched), vášnivý (ardent, avid, fervent, heated, impassioned, inveterate, keen, passional, passionate, red-hot, sultry, vehement, violent), suchý (arid, bald, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, wry), palèivý (blazing, burning, pungent, urgent), horký (blazing, fervent, hot, scalding), žhavý (ardent, baking, blistering, glowing, live, sultry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محترق , حاره , حاد (Acute, Hot, Keen), سوزاننده (Acrid), سوزان (Ablaze, Acrimonious, Alight, Ardent, Fervid, Perfervid, Scathing), زیادگرم , بسیارمشتاق . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuuma vyöhyke (torrid zone, tropics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | torride, ardent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glühend (aglow, ardent, blazing, blistering, broiling, burning, consuming, fervent, fiery, flaming, flushed, gloweringly, glowing, incandescent, live, red-hot, torridly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καυστικόσ (caustic, cutting, hot, peppery, poignant, scorching, sweltering, sweltery, vitriolic), καυτηρόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לו"ט (aglow, burning, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, incandescent), שחון (hot, overheated), שרבי (very hot), צחיח (arid, barren, dry, infertile, parched, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | perzselõ, forró (boiling, burning, ebullient, fervent, fervid, heated, hot, perfervid, scalding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | panas terik (red hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | torrido (hot, scorching, thermionic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cryss cheh (torrid zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orridtay tórrido (scorching, sweaty), quente (baking, heartwarming, heated, hot, red-hot, snug, warm), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feeling, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, hotspur, incandescent, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), abrasador (burning, parching, scorching, sweaty, tropic, tropical). (various references) torid (scorching), fierbinte (ardent, boiling, burning, consuming, devout, ebullient, fervent, fiery, hot, intense, scorching). (various references) знойный (hot, sultry, sweltering), жаркий (hot). (various references) tropski (manatee, tropic, tropical), vatren (ardent, burning, fiery, glowing, gushing, hot-blooded, igneous, peppery, perfervid, red-hot, spirited, spunky), žarki (ardent, bright, fervent, fervid, hot, tropic, zealous). (various references) tórrido (parching). (various references) förbränd (parched). (various references) yakıcı (bitter, burner, burning, parching, piquant, poignant, scorching), kavurucu (boiling, broiling, parching, scorching), kavrulmuş (burnt, parched, roasted), ihtiraslı (ambitious, passionate, sultry), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, zealous), aşırı sıcak (piping hot, sizzling hot, sweltering, sweltry). (various references) гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, mettled, mettlesome, ornery, scalding, warm), пекучий (baking, burning, parching, scorching, sizzling, stinging, sultry). (various references) nóng như thiêu như đốt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "torrid": torrider, torridest, torridities, torridity, torridly, torridness, torridnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Torrid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orid, orrid, sorrid, storrid, tarid, Tigrida, tirric, toirid, toord, toprid, Torada, toraid, torcid, tored, toric, torid, torim, torin, torio, torip, torir, toris, torit, Tornrak, Torodov, toroids, Torold, Torran, torred, Torrel, torri, torria, torric, torrie, torrik, torris, torroid, torry, Torvil, Trobridge, troid, turdid, turid, turrin, turrip, tutrix, tyrrid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "torrid" (pronounced tô"rud) |
| 4 | -ô" r u d | florid, horrid. |
| 3 | -r u d | acrid, anhydride, arid, hatred, hundred, hybrid, kindred, lurid, putrid, sacred. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: droit. | |
-2 letters: dirt, doit, dorr, riot, roti, tiro, tori, torr, trio, trod. | |
-3 letters: dit, dor, dot, ort, rid, rod, rot, tod, tor. | |
-4 letters: do, id, it, od, or, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: stridor. | |
+2 letters: adroiter, creditor, director, outrider, radiator, stridors, torrider, torridly, traditor, worrited. | |
+3 letters: creditors, directors, directory, distorter, dormitory, drouthier, erythroid, outriders, overtired, predictor, radiators, recordist, retrodict, roistered, torrefied, torridest, torridity, torrified, tortricid, trihedron. | |
+4 letters: codirector, cointerred, cordierite, denigrator, descriptor, distorters, distrainor, droughtier, eradicator, introducer, irradiator, orchardist, overdirect, overstride, predictors, propertied, protruding, pyrethroid, radiometer, radiometry, recordists, reimported, reoriented, repudiator, retailored, retrodicts, retrofired, ritardando, spiderwort, tailorbird, terrorised, terrorized, torridness, tortricids, traditores, tricolored, trihedrons, trihydroxy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 72 72 69 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .-. .-. .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o r r i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0072 0072 0069 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548184847570 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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