[W/K] :: torrid

  Torrid \Tor"rid\, a. [L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to
     burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See Thirst.]
     1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
        "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." --Milton.
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     2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning;
        parching. "Torrid heat." --Milton.
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     Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth,
        included between the tropics, over which the sun is
        vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is
        always great.
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  torrid
       adj 1: 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" [syn:
              ardent, burning(a), fervent, fervid, fiery,
              impassioned, perfervid]
       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" [syn: sultry]

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "torrid":
     amorous, ardent, arid, baking, blazing, blistering, blistery,
     boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, cooking,
     ebullient, erotic, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming,
     flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell,
     hot-blooded, humid, impassioned, inflamed, intense, like a furnace,
     like an oven, lustful, muggy, overheated, overwarm, parched,
     parching, passionate, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding,
     scorched, scorching, searing, seething, sexy, simmering, sizzling,
     sizzling hot, smoking hot, steaming, steamy, stifling, sudorific,
     sultry, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, tropical,
     white-hot