Usually means: Very heavy, sudden, intense rain.
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  1. torrential: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. torrential: Merriam-Webster
  3. torrential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. torrential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. torrential: Collins English Dictionary
  6. torrential: Vocabulary.com
  7. Torrential, torrential: Wordnik
  8. torrential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. torrential: Wiktionary
  10. torrential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. torrential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. torrential: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. torrential: Dictionary.com
  14. torrential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Torrential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. torrential: Rhymezone
  17. Torrential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. torrential: FreeDictionary.org
  19. torrential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. torrential: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Torrential: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Coming or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities.

Similar:
abundant, uncontrolled, torrentuous, teeming, floodful, gushing, copious, stormful, streamful, showerful, more...

Opposite:
light, sparse, scattered, few, isolated

Types:
monsoon, hurricane, typhoon, blizzard, snowstorm, thunderstorm, sandstorm, rainstorm, windstorm, more...

Phrases:
torrential rain, torrential downpour, more...

Colors:
    dark blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     stormy gray, more...



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Similar:
abundant, uncontrolled, torrentuous, teeming, floodful, gushing, copious, stormful, streamful, showerful, more...

Opposite:
light, sparse, scattered, few, isolated

Types:
monsoon, hurricane, typhoon, blizzard, snowstorm, thunderstorm, sandstorm, rainstorm, windstorm, more...

Phrases:
torrential rain, torrential downpour, more...

Colors:
    dark blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     stormy gray, more...



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