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tropical |
Grep of noun tropical tropical medicine tropical pitcher plant tropical prawn tropical rain forest tropical sore tropical sprue tropical year tropical zone Overview of adj tropical The adj tropical has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (4) tropical, tropic -- (relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit") 2. tropical -- ((rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense) 3. tropical, tropic -- (of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather") Antonyms of adj tropical 3 senses of tropical Sense 1 tropical, tropic INDIRECT (VIA equatorial) -> polar Sense 2 tropical INDIRECT (VIA figurative) -> literal Sense 3 tropical, tropic INDIRECT (VIA hot) -> cold Similarity of adj tropical 3 senses of tropical Sense 1 tropical, tropic => equatorial (vs. polar) Sense 2 tropical => figurative (vs. literal), nonliteral Sense 3 tropical, tropic => hot (vs. cold) Attributes of adj tropical Familiarity of adj tropical tropical used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj tropical allotropical nontropical pantropical semitropical subtropical tropical Overview of adj tropical The adj tropical has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (4) tropical, tropic -- (relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit") 2. tropical -- ((rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense) 3. tropical, tropic -- (of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather")
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