Dictionary 1. (n.) of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.2. (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Thesaurus aestival blood-hot blood-warm calid equatorial genial hot luke lukewarm mild room-temperature subtropical sultry summery sunny sunshiny temperate tepid thermal thermic toasty torrid tropic unfrozen warm warm as toast warmish |