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| Main Entry: | torrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | arid, blazing, boiling, broiling, burning, dried, dry, fiery, heated, parched, red-hot*, scorching, sultry, sweltering, tropic, tropical, austral, blistering, parching, scalding, scorched, sizzling, stifling |
| Antonyms: | arctic, cold, freezing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | torrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensuous |
| Synonyms: | ardent, blazing, burning, erotic, fervent, flaming, hot*, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot*, sexy, steamy, sultry, hot-blooded, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, unsensual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | broiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, scorching, sweltering, torrid, baking, roasting, scalding, sizzling |
| Antonyms: | freezing |
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, furious, glowing, heated*, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, passionate, powerful, profound, red-hot*, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed*, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, zealous, fired up, hot-blooded, overemotional, perfervid, steamed up, white-hot, wild about, worked up |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stormy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | bitter, blustery, boisterous, cold, damp, dirty, foul, frigid, furious, gusty, menacing, murky, pouring, raging, rainy, savage, tempestuous, threatening, torrid, turbulent, violent, wet, wild, windy, blowy, blustering, coming down, howling, raining cats and dogs, riproaring, roaring, squally, stormful, storming |
| Antonyms: | calm, clear, clement |
| Main Entry: | sweltering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | broiling, burning, close, fiery, humid, oppressive, scorching, sticky, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, torrid, airless, baking, perspiring, sizzling, stewing, stifling, sweltry |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing |
| Main Entry: | tropical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | warm and humid |
| Synonyms: | close, equatorial, hot, lush, steamy, sticky, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, torrid, tropic, stifling |
| Antonyms: | arctic, freezing, frigid, polar |
| Main Entry: | equatorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tropical |
| Synonyms: | central, torrid, tropic |
| Main Entry: | boiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | broiling, burning, fiery, hot, red-hot, scorching, torrid, tropical, warm, baking, blistering, roasting, scalding, sizzling |
| Antonyms: | freezing |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blazing, flashing |
| Synonyms: | afire, alight, broiling, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot, illuminated, incandescent, on fire, red-hot*, scorching, torrid, aflame, blistering, conflagrant, enkindled, flaring, gleaming, ignited, in flames, kindled, oxidizing, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moistureless |
| Synonyms: | arid, baked, bald, bare, barren, depleted, desert, drained, dusty, exhausted, hard, impoverished, parched, sear, stale, thirsty, torrid, anhydrous, athirst, dehydrated, desiccant, desiccated, dried-up, droughty, evaporated, juiceless, not irrigated, rainless, sapless, sapped, shriveled, unmoistened, waterless |
| Antonyms: | damp, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet, dripping |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | blazing, boiling, broiling, burning, close, febrile, feverish, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, incandescent, on fire, red*, scorching, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, torrid, tropic, tropical, warm, white*, baking, blistering, calescent, decalescent, fevered, feverous, igneous, like an oven, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, roasting, scalding, searing, sizzling, smoking, sweltry, thermogenic, very warm |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sultry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | broiling, burning, close, hot, muggy, oppressive, red-hot*, scorching, soggy, sticky, stuffy, sweltering, torrid, wet, baking, mucky, sizzling, smothering, stifling, suffocating, sweltry |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath*, steamy, sticky, stuffy, sultry, torrid, airless, stifling, suffocating, sweat box |
| Antonyms: | cool, mild, temperate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tropic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | burning, hot, humid, steamy, sticky, sultry, sweltering, thermal, torrid, tropical, tropical, warm, stifling, very warm |
| Antonyms: | arctic, chilly, cool, temperate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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