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# torrid

adjective (torrid)

«torrid» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Very hot and dry: a torrid summer, torrid desert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#m1)
2. Full of strong, difficult feelings or troubles: a torrid time means a very hard time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#m2)

### In the lessons

A weather and geography word: the old name «torrid zone» meant the hot lands between the tropics. In news and sport: «The team had a torrid afternoon» means they had a terrible time. Writers also use it for passionate love stories, a grown-up sense.

### Examples

- The explorers crossed the torrid desert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x1)
- It was a torrid summer with no rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x2)
- Old maps call the hot lands near the equator the torrid zone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x3)
- The goalkeeper had a torrid afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x4)
- The camels plodded on in the torrid heat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x5)
- We had a torrid time moving house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/#x6)

### Note

Adjective, a little formal. In sport and news (UK) «a torrid time» = a very bad time. Do not confuse with «horrid» or «torrent» (a rushing stream).

## In Jewish tradition

A weather and geography word: the old name «torrid zone» meant the hot lands between the tropics. In news and sport: «The team had a torrid afternoon» means they had a terrible time. Writers also use it for passionate love stories, a grown-up sense.

### Examples

- By Indians he might have meant Ethio- pians, or any other nation under the torrid zone which the ancients used tu denominate as Indians (T. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/torrid/#x1)

### Note

Adjective, a little formal. In sport and news (UK) «a torrid time» = a very bad time. Do not confuse with «horrid» or «torrent» (a rushing stream).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «torrid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrid/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«torrid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/torrid.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «torrid» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/torrid/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«torrid» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/torrid.html) on Mova free.