Today’s word of the day is ‘Torrential’ Let us understand more about this word.
torrential [ taw-ren-shuh l ]
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
1. Overflowing
2. Pouring in abundance
3. Gushing
4. Flooding
1. Hindi – Moosaladhaar
2. Spanish – Torrencial
3. French – Torrentiel
4. Mandarin – Pāngtuó
1. From this cloud, fell a torrential rain, which was hundreds of mussels.
2. They rode off in a hailstorm that gradually became a torrential rain.
3. There will be floods again if the rain continues so torrential.
4. He whirls his readers off their feet by the torrential flow of his argument.
5. It is the rule of the torrential river which sometimes overflows and then runs dry.Some synonyms of the word are:
teeming, abounding, swarming, copious, cornucopian, exuberant, inundant, inundatory, scaturient, superabundant, heavy, deluged, bucketing, flowing, hammering, copious, galore etc.
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
airy, frivolous, buoyant, light, easy, faint, bright, dizzy, cheerful, scarce, sickly, facile, lightweight, shortage, scanty
Quotation:
The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.
Nick Davies
Social Example:
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