torrid
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˈtɔrɪd/
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abrasador
- Cano has posted nine straight multi-hit games, going 24-for-39 for a .615 average with seven doubles, three homers, and 14 RBIs during that torrid stretch.
- torrid summer
- torrid heat
- torrid sun
Examples
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There was a wind that brought rain in October, and that was good, relief from the heat, the dust, and the merciless sun that beat down through the long, torrid summer.
Fiction book (2000) -
At ten that morning, Frieda was standing at a table in the tiny, torrid kitchen of the First Lady Restaurant husking newly picked corn.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's time I left this torrid town
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D'Cey could tell the day would be torrid.
Fiction book (2000) -
The rainy season coincided with the cold winter, and the dry season with the torrid summer.
Academic text (2007) -
Her clothes stuck to her skin from her journey from the airport to the hotel in the torrid, humid heat that had left her looking and feeling like a dishrag.
Fiction book (1990) -
Almansa is a severe region in which to grow grapes, torrid in summer, fiercely cold in winter.
Blog text (12) -
Astronomers originally thought 55 Cancri e was a torrid wasteland, its surface scorched and parched due to its proximity to its parent star.
Blog text (4) -
It was clear the 18th Grande Prêmio do Brasil would be absolutely torrid as far as the weather was concerned.
Blog text (23) -
During the torrid summer months, many people find it hard to stay cool.
Synonyms
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3.0
Hot and humid, often making you sweat
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2.6
Warm, sticky air that feels wet and uncomfortable
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5.3
Very hot and humid in an uncomfortable way
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4.8
Weather that is very hot and humid makes you sweat and feel uncomfortable
Very hot and likely to burn the skin
Very hot, like the heat inside an oven
A very hot and humid feeling that makes you uncomfortable
Hot, humid air that feels close and stuffy
Antonyms
Compounds
A very hot area of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
How Hot
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torrid comes from the Latin word torrere, which means 'to burn', and from torridus meaning 'parched' or 'dried by heat'. So when we describe weather or a place as 'torrid' we mean it is very hot and dry, as if the sun has 'burned' the land.