| Main Entry: | torrid |
| 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: | torrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensuous |
Synonyms: |
ardent, blazing, burning, erotic, fervent, flaming, hot*, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, red-hot, sexy, steamy, sultry, white-hot |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool, frigid, unsensual |
| 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 |