tropical

tropical

adjective

Definition of TROPICAL

1

being near the equator <wanted to escape winter and visit some tropical location where freezing to death would not be a possibility>

Synonyms equatorial, tropical

Related Words semitropical (also semitropic), subtropical (also subtropic)

Near Antonyms temperate

Antonyms polar

2

expressing one thing in terms normally used for another <an author given to high-flown tropical phrasings and convoluted symbology>

Synonyms extended, figural, metaphoric (or metaphorical), tropical, tropological

Related Words Aesopian (also Aesopic), allegorical, emblematic (also emblematical), symbolic (also symbolical); catachrestic (or catachrestical), sylleptic; euphemistic; nonliteral, veritable

Near Antonyms literal; nonsymbolic

Antonyms nonfigurative, nonmetaphorical