torrid

torrid
    adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
           ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
           fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
           appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent},
           {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned}, {perfervid},
           {torrid}]
    2: emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid
       dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid
       rhythms"
    3: extremely hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the
       dessert"
    

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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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