Synonyms for tropical
ˈtrɒp ɪ kəl for 1-4,6 ; ˈtroʊ pɪ kəl for 5trop·i·cal

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1. tropical, tropicadjective

   relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

   "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"

   Synonyms:
   tropic

   Antonyms:
   literal, polar, cold

2. tropicaladjective

   of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic

   "tropical year"

   Synonyms:
   tropic

   Antonyms:
   literal, polar, cold

3. tropicaladjective

   characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense

   Synonyms:
   tropic

   Antonyms:
   polar, cold, literal

4. tropical, tropicadjective

   of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics

   "tropical weather"

   Synonyms:
   tropic

   Antonyms:
   cold, literal, polar

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1. tropicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   of the tropics

2. tropicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   figurative, metaphorical, not literal

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1. List of paraphrases for "tropical":

   equatorial, orbital, equatoria, orbiting, non-tropical, equateur, typhoon

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1. Carlos Gimenez:

   We are looking at experiencing heavy rainfall through Monday and possible tropical storm force winds beginning Sunday.

2. David Rothery:

   Even a lengthy sustained ash eruption would be very unlikely to produce enough ash to spread across the tropical zone.

3. Richard Betts:

   Although the series of annual levels of CO2 have always seen a year-on-year increase since 1958, driven by fossil fuel burning and deforestation, the rate of rise isn't perfectly even because there are fluctuations in the response of ecosystem carbon sinks, especially tropical forests, overall, these are expected to be weaker than normal for a second year running.

4. Suzana Camargo:

   People have been doing different attempts to try to figure out what happened with other datasets, using different methodologies, so I see this paper as another piece of the puzzle, we do not have data in the past, and we can not go back and be there now, so this paper is trying to recreate in a different way that has been done so far what has happened in the relation to number of tropical cyclones.

5. Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham:

   International visitors are critical and especially critical in places like Kangaroo Island or tropical North Queensland and these are destinations that have relied upon a large part of their visitor market being international tourists and that's why we got to recover those markets as quickly as we can.