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 | ||