torrid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: torrid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for torrid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
torrid adj 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" Synonym(s): ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid rhythms" extremely hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil.[b8] --Milton. 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. [bd]Torrid heat.[b8] --Milton. {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.