Definitions for torrential

torrential tor·ren·tial

Spelling: [taw-ren-shuh l, toh-, tuh-]
IPA: /tɔˈrɛn ʃəl, toʊ-, tə-/

Torrential is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 665 anagrams from letters in torrential (aeilnorrtt).

Definitions for torrential

adjective

  1. pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
  2. resembling a torrent in rapidity or violence.
  3. falling in torrents:
  4. produced by the action of a torrent.
  5. violent, vehement, or impassioned.
  6. overwhelming; extraordinarily copious.

Origin of torrential

First recorded in 1840-50; torrent + -ial

Examples for torrential

From this cloud, fell a torrential rain, in which were hundreds of mussels.

When they are all, as it were, turned on together, the effect is torrential!

But the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.

He whirls his readers off their feet by the torrential flow of his argument.

Recent turnout has been massive, with over 150,000 people gathering for the ceremony even when there were torrential downpours.

I spent today in the Johannesburg Stadium, among 70,000 people who attended despite the torrential rain.

After a long spell of torrential rain, there's been catastrophic flooding this month in the northern hill state of Uttarakhand.

There will be floods again if the rain continues so torrential.

They rode off in a hailstorm that gradually became a torrential rain.

Sheets of torrential rains pouring down over the Land Rover sent its four wheels plunging into the mud.

Word Value for torrential
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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