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Definition of torrid in English: torridadjective ˈtɒrɪd 1Very hot and dry. the torrid heat of the afternoon Example sentencesExamples - If your summers veer towards the torrid, a soft coat low e with a lower SHGC may be a more sensible strategy.
- Their masters, too, were reeling under the torrid heat.
- Whether in the torrid months of summer, the pouring rains of the monsoon season, or the cold winters of the North, it's always tea time in India.
- So he stood there with his bag in his hand, braving the torrid summer heat for three hours.
- I was indulging in the torrid heat of a thermal bath…
- An added incentive, if any, is the air-conditioning environment of the computer institutes offering the much-needed respite from the torrid summer.
- Furthermore, he has managed to steady the ship following the torrid days of early summer when he was being pilloried for everything from opera to poorly chosen kilts.
- Las Vegas is famous for gambling, sex, torrid heat and gigantic men in posing trunks in pursuit of stardom.
- A section of men, including small boys, have their days in the torrid heat in the city that has now worn a festoon ambience for its favourite month, ‘Chithirai’.
- Beautifully textured, sensuous and skin-friendly, it is cool in torrid Indian summers and keeps one warm in winter.
- Lightweight seersucker check with embroidered tops and knits to match falls right in place this torrid summer.
- When the summer gets torrid, its time to go on long holidays, preferably tourist packages, to places where it is much cooler and peaceful.
- Surely, there can't be a more torrid time than summer.
- The thermometer ranges from below zero in the winter to above 100 on torrid summer days when scorching winds sandblast the canyons.
- Tourists visiting Bangalore to get away from the torrid heat in cities such as Chennai and Hyderabad are now forced to endure the same unfavourable weather conditions here as well, though minus the humidity.
- Youths held a long banner overlooking the strong-smelling grave in torrid heat.
- Faced with heavy losses due to flagging demand, there was talk of drastic reductions in spring last year, but nobody was prepared to take the lead, and, in the end, a torrid summer saved them from having to do so.
- Chisholm's departure would come after a torrid summer in which he has been harshly criticised for allowing a series of swingeing cuts in hospital services throughout Scotland.
- Having spent much of his coaching career in the heat of Turkey's torrid arenas, the Peterhead manager, proved himself a surprising dab hand with the snow-shovel as he mucked in on Friday night.
- Those unlucky of not having the time or the inclination to go to Goa's golden beaches, take heart from the Coconut lagoon, for it will provide similar respite and comfort from the torrid summer.
Synonyms hot, sweltering, sultry, scorching, boiling, parching, sizzling, roasting, blazing, burning, blistering, tropical, stifling, suffocating, oppressive dry, arid, barren, parched, waterless, desert - 1.1 Full of passion arising from sexual love.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘A secret, torrid love affair,’ Tori swooned falsely, winning a laugh from Jacquelyn and Ramona.
- But a little while ago I did get them out and look at them and they were pretty torrid love letters.
- My body, overheated from the torrid hotness and sexual cravings glistened from excessive perspiration.
- Once upstairs, it was a torrid and passionate night for both.
- Most come with torrid messages of love expressed in poetry.
- He thus tasked himself to extraction from what was not, oddly enough, a torrid steamy love affair with an accountant.
- This being the movies, naturally a torrid love story sparks the lulls between battles and cannonfire.
- As ‘Marriage and Murder’ showed, torrid passions could still burn in cold climates - even Winnipeg's.
- A friend of mine has two boy cats, both neutered, who are enjoying a torrid if sexless love affair.
- These two soon begin a torrid affair, making love under Albert's nose at the restaurant.
- The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
- The hub of the show, and the principal element that has maintained its longevity, was the torrid love affair between Gomez and Morticia.
- He became less of a stranger later, and more of a boy who I would have a torrid love affair with.
- The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
- In no time at all, both are head-first into a torrid, steamy love affair.
- Or to put it a nicer way, they are engaged in a torrid yet tragic love affair.
- She and Gary face some torrid love scenes ahead, however, and we think things might be getting a little interesting on the set right now.
- When you do feel comfortable with someone, though, your torrid sexual appetite will make him very happy.
- Instead, they make torrid love in Maria's apartment, a supremely erotic scene that finds rapture in the contortions of Morton's face.
- We met and fell in love and had a torrid passionate affair.
Synonyms passionate, impassioned, ardent, intense, inflamed, fervent, fervid, lustful, amorous, erotic, sexy informal steamy, sizzling, hot
2British Full of difficulty. he'd been given a pretty torrid time by the nation's voters Example sentencesExamples - Dolan admitted the torrid conditions had made life difficult, especially with Cheltenham firing in a number of dangerous crosses.
- A torrid Christmas is only part of their difficulties, as we explain on page four.
- John Williams, who had being giving their full back a torrid time, did exceptionally well to get to the by-line and pull the ball back to me.
3North American (especially in financial contexts) characterized by intense activity; hard to contain or stop. the world's most torrid economies Example sentencesExamples - The U.S. economy almost certainly won't keep up the third quarter's torrid pace.
- He's betting that the Chinese economy will keep roaring along at its present torrid pace, at a time when many analysts believe China is set to slow, or maybe even overheat.
- Indeed, Bangalore's economy is growing at a torrid 10% annual clip - twice the national average.
- By just about every standard, from GDP growth to consumer confidence, the U.S. economy is in the midst of a torrid turnaround.
- During the 1989-90 recession, for example, there was a torrid need for financial consultants as companies downsized.
- Gap continues to add hundreds of new stores at a torrid pace despite the sluggish economy and signs of market saturation.
- To many observers, India's torrid economic growth looks like a recent event.
- True, the city's new economy is unlikely to keep up its current torrid growth tempo.
- But the F1 business, for which the company is best known, had a torrid year financially.
Derivatives noun tɒˈrɪdɪti Her striking azure eyes reflect the leaping blaze while her face is flushed from the intense torridity of such a realistic foreboding. Example sentencesExamples - I do not know what else would dispel this oppressive torridity, ‘he sighed, ‘Wind, I suppose, would do, Sir.’
- Though my flesh ached with fire within my bones felt as ice and I trembled in torridity while sweating with cold.
adverb He received permission to photograph the small but torridly overdecorated apartment of Sousa. Example sentencesExamples - His trumpet solos were as torridly intense as his vigorous tones that steered the surging ensembles.
- She prayed to God, she had never prayed so torridly before as she watched James step up in front of the rope, which hung from above.
- Jerry doesn't sing; everyone else does, to verdantly melodic, torridly gross-out tunes.
Origin Late 16th century: from French torride or Latin torridus, from torrere 'parch, scorch'. Definition of torrid in US English: torridadjective 1Very hot and dry. the torrid heat of the afternoon Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore, he has managed to steady the ship following the torrid days of early summer when he was being pilloried for everything from opera to poorly chosen kilts.
- Surely, there can't be a more torrid time than summer.
- Las Vegas is famous for gambling, sex, torrid heat and gigantic men in posing trunks in pursuit of stardom.
- Whether in the torrid months of summer, the pouring rains of the monsoon season, or the cold winters of the North, it's always tea time in India.
- If your summers veer towards the torrid, a soft coat low e with a lower SHGC may be a more sensible strategy.
- When the summer gets torrid, its time to go on long holidays, preferably tourist packages, to places where it is much cooler and peaceful.
- Beautifully textured, sensuous and skin-friendly, it is cool in torrid Indian summers and keeps one warm in winter.
- An added incentive, if any, is the air-conditioning environment of the computer institutes offering the much-needed respite from the torrid summer.
- The thermometer ranges from below zero in the winter to above 100 on torrid summer days when scorching winds sandblast the canyons.
- A section of men, including small boys, have their days in the torrid heat in the city that has now worn a festoon ambience for its favourite month, ‘Chithirai’.
- Having spent much of his coaching career in the heat of Turkey's torrid arenas, the Peterhead manager, proved himself a surprising dab hand with the snow-shovel as he mucked in on Friday night.
- Youths held a long banner overlooking the strong-smelling grave in torrid heat.
- I was indulging in the torrid heat of a thermal bath…
- Tourists visiting Bangalore to get away from the torrid heat in cities such as Chennai and Hyderabad are now forced to endure the same unfavourable weather conditions here as well, though minus the humidity.
- Lightweight seersucker check with embroidered tops and knits to match falls right in place this torrid summer.
- So he stood there with his bag in his hand, braving the torrid summer heat for three hours.
- Chisholm's departure would come after a torrid summer in which he has been harshly criticised for allowing a series of swingeing cuts in hospital services throughout Scotland.
- Faced with heavy losses due to flagging demand, there was talk of drastic reductions in spring last year, but nobody was prepared to take the lead, and, in the end, a torrid summer saved them from having to do so.
- Their masters, too, were reeling under the torrid heat.
- Those unlucky of not having the time or the inclination to go to Goa's golden beaches, take heart from the Coconut lagoon, for it will provide similar respite and comfort from the torrid summer.
Synonyms hot, sweltering, sultry, scorching, boiling, parching, sizzling, roasting, blazing, burning, blistering, tropical, stifling, suffocating, oppressive - 1.1 Full of passionate or highly charged emotions arising from sexual love.
Example sentencesExamples - He became less of a stranger later, and more of a boy who I would have a torrid love affair with.
- The hub of the show, and the principal element that has maintained its longevity, was the torrid love affair between Gomez and Morticia.
- Or to put it a nicer way, they are engaged in a torrid yet tragic love affair.
- Most come with torrid messages of love expressed in poetry.
- A friend of mine has two boy cats, both neutered, who are enjoying a torrid if sexless love affair.
- ‘A secret, torrid love affair,’ Tori swooned falsely, winning a laugh from Jacquelyn and Ramona.
- Instead, they make torrid love in Maria's apartment, a supremely erotic scene that finds rapture in the contortions of Morton's face.
- We met and fell in love and had a torrid passionate affair.
- In no time at all, both are head-first into a torrid, steamy love affair.
- He thus tasked himself to extraction from what was not, oddly enough, a torrid steamy love affair with an accountant.
- This being the movies, naturally a torrid love story sparks the lulls between battles and cannonfire.
- Once upstairs, it was a torrid and passionate night for both.
- As ‘Marriage and Murder’ showed, torrid passions could still burn in cold climates - even Winnipeg's.
- She and Gary face some torrid love scenes ahead, however, and we think things might be getting a little interesting on the set right now.
- My body, overheated from the torrid hotness and sexual cravings glistened from excessive perspiration.
- The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
- These two soon begin a torrid affair, making love under Albert's nose at the restaurant.
- But a little while ago I did get them out and look at them and they were pretty torrid love letters.
- The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
- When you do feel comfortable with someone, though, your torrid sexual appetite will make him very happy.
Synonyms passionate, impassioned, ardent, intense, inflamed, fervent, fervid, lustful, amorous, erotic, sexy
2British Full of difficulty or tribulation. Wall Street is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks Example sentencesExamples - Dolan admitted the torrid conditions had made life difficult, especially with Cheltenham firing in a number of dangerous crosses.
- John Williams, who had being giving their full back a torrid time, did exceptionally well to get to the by-line and pull the ball back to me.
- A torrid Christmas is only part of their difficulties, as we explain on page four.
Origin Late 16th century: from French torride or Latin torridus, from torrere ‘parch, scorch’. |