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say it: TAW-ruhd
torrid is an adjective meaning "characterized by intense emotion". It carries 3 recorded senses.
characterized by intense emotion
“ardent love”
“an ardent lover”
“a fervent desire to change society”
“a fervent admirer”
“fiery oratory”
“an impassioned appeal”
“a torrid love affair”
emotionally charged and vigorously energetic
“a torrid dance”
“torrid jazz bands”
“hot trumpets and torrid rhythms”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for torrid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.