torrid

the torrid heat of the afternoon.

the torrid noonday sun.

a torrid love scene.

a torrid love affair

set a torrid pace; torrid economic growth.

She was sitting on the rocks in the torrid sun.

Wall Street is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks.

The torrid rays of the sun parched the soil.

the Asian side of the Pacific Rim contains the world's most torrid economies.

the Torrid Zone); it may also be an area with strictly defined, often arbitrarily set boundaries (