torrid

Main Entry:
torrid [tawr-id, tor-]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very hot
Synonyms: arid, austral, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, dried, dry, fiery, heated, parched, parching, red-hot, scalding, scorched, scorching, sizzling, stifling, sultry, sweltering, tropic, tropical
Antonyms: arctic, cold, freezing
Main Entry: boiling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very hot
Synonyms: baking, blistering, broiling, burning, fiery, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, torrid, tropical, warm
Antonyms: freezing
Main Entry: broiling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very hot
Synonyms: baking, burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, torrid
Antonyms: freezing
Main Entry: burning
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blazing, flashing
Synonyms: afire, aflame, alight, blistering, broiling, conflagrant, enkindled, fiery, flaming, flaring, gleaming, glowing, heated, hot, ignited, illuminated, in flames, incandescent, kindled, on fire, oxidizing, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, torrid, white-hot
Antonyms: cold, cool
Main Entry: dry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: moistureless
Synonyms: anhydrous, arid, athirst, baked, bald, bare, barren, dehydrated, depleted, desert, desiccant, desiccated, drained, dried-up, droughty, dusty, evaporated, exhausted, hard, impoverished, juiceless, not irrigated, parched, rainless, sapless, sapped, sear, shriveled, stale, thirsty, torrid, unmoistened, waterless
Antonyms: damp, dripping, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet
Main Entry: hot
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very high in temperature
Synonyms: baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white*
Antonyms: cold, cool, freezing, frigid
Main Entry: impassioned
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: excited, vehement
Synonyms: animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, fired up, flaming, furious, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, overemotional, passionate, perfervid, powerful, profound, red-hot, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed, steamed up, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, white-hot, wild about, worked up, zealous
Notes: impassioned means characterized by intense emotion or full of passion, while impassive means having or revealing little emotion
Antonyms: apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited
Main Entry: oppressive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hot and humid
Synonyms: airless, close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweat box, torrid
Antonyms: cool, mild, temperate
Main Entry: stormy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rough (referring to weather)
Synonyms: bitter, blowy, blustering, blustery, boisterous, cold, coming down, damp, dirty, foul, frigid, furious, gusty, howling, menacing, murky, pouring, raging, raining cats and dogs, rainy, riproaring, roaring, savage, squally, stormful, storming, tempestuous, threatening, torrid, turbulent, violent, wet, wild, windy
Antonyms: calm, clear, clement
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