English adjective: tropical | |||
1. | tropical relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | ||
Samples | Tropical islands. Tropical fruit. | ||
Synonyms | tropic | ||
Similar | equatorial | ||
Antonyms | polar | ||
2. | tropical of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | ||
Samples | Tropical year. | ||
3. | tropical characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense | ||
Similar | figurative, nonliteral | ||
Domain category | rhetoric | ||
Antonyms | literal | ||
4. | tropical of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | ||
Samples | Tropical weather. | ||
Synonyms | tropic | ||
Similar | hot | ||
Antonyms | cold | ||