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torrid adjective uk /ˈtɒr.ɪd/ us /ˈtɔːr.ɪd/
torridadjective (EMOTIONS) involving strong emotions, especially those of sexual love: (尤指性爱)热烈的,炽烈的 a torrid romance炽烈的爱情 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Strong feelings afire agonized all-consuming anguish anguished ardent fierily fit to burstidiom flamingly fulminating grip passions run highidiom penetratingly pungently quiveringly rabidly smoulder tempestuous tingle virulent
torridadjective (WEATHER) formal extremely hot: 赤热的;炽热的;热得发红的 the torrid heat of August8月的酷热 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Hot & heat airless bake baking beat down blisteringly boiling boiling hot closeness fug haze haze over heated mirage overheat scorchingly stifling stiflingly stuffiness suffocatingly superhot
Idiom
a torrid time
torrid | American Dictionary torrid adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈtɔr·əd, ˈtɑr-/
torridadjective[not gradable] (HOT) (of weather) extremely hot: Summers in the tropics are torrid.
torridadjective[not gradable] (POWERFUL) involving very powerful emotions
torridadjective[not gradable] (PERFORMING WELL) performing or doing something extremely well: He kept up his torrid hitting pace with a sixth homer in eight days. After a couple of months of torrid sales, business began to settle down.
torrid | Business English torrid adjective informaluk /ˈtɒrɪd/us a torrid period of time is full of difficult problems: The manufacturing sector is going through torrid times. These were a torrid few days for Spanish investors. |