tropical

English Thesaurus

1. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics (adj.all)

similar	:	hot,
definition	:	used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning (adj.all)

2. characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense (adj.all)

similar	:	figurative, nonliteral,
definition	:	(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech (adj.all)

domain category	:	rhetoric,
definition	:	study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) (noun.cognition)

3. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) (adj.all)

similar	:	equatorial,
definition	:	of or existing at or near the geographic equator (adj.all)

4. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics (adj.all)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

5. characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense (adj.all)

derivation	:	figure, figure of speech, image, trope,
definition	:	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)

6. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) (adj.all)

derivation	:	torrid zone, tropical zone, tropics,
definition	:	the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate (noun.location)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

7. of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

8. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics (adj.all)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

9. characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense (adj.all)

derivation	:	figure, figure of speech, image, trope,
definition	:	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)

10. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) (adj.all)

derivation	:	torrid zone, tropical zone, tropics,
definition	:	the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate (noun.location)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

11. of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)

derivation	:	tropic,
definition	:	either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics (noun.location)