[ US /ˈtɔɹəd/ ]
[ UK /tˈɒɹɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally charged and vigorously energetic
    hot trumpets and torrid rhythms
    a torrid dance
    torrid jazz bands
  2. extremely hot and dry
    the torrid heat of the noonday sun
  3. characterized by intense emotion
    an ardent lover
    a torrid love affair
    ardent love
    a fervent admirer
    fiery oratory
    an impassioned appeal
    a fervent desire to change society
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How To Use torrid In A Sentence

  • It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
  • The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
  • What people most long for in ogling the screen is to witness some torrid lascivious scene: the incentives to gaze are supremely lubricious.
  • That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
  • If your summers veer towards the torrid, a soft coat low e with a lower SHGC may be a more sensible strategy.
  • An added incentive, if any, is the air-conditioning environment of the computer institutes offering the much-needed respite from the torrid summer.
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  • In all, it was a torrid day for Spanish cycling. Times, Sunday Times
  • That was the beginning of a short but torrid affair with hybrid bearded irises. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
  • The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
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