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Tropical vs Smarting - What's the difference?

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Tropical is a related term of smarting.


As adjectives the difference between tropical and smarting

is that tropical is of or north and 23 degrees south while smarting is painful, sore.

As nouns the difference between tropical and smarting

is that tropical is a tropical plant while smarting is a sensation that smarts or stings.

As a verb smarting is

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tropical

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or north and 23 degrees south.
  • From or similar to a hot climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
  • (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a .
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • * South
    • The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

    Derived terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tropical plant.

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    smarting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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