tropical isle

Warm ocean island

A tropical isle is a small island in warm equatorial waters, typically evoking images of palm trees, white sand beaches, and turquoise seas.

The phrase carries romantic or escapist connotations—advertisements promise getaways to a tropical isle, and castaways wash up on them in fiction.

Isle rather than island gives the phrase a slightly literary or whimsical quality.

Related

coconut · lagoon · crystal clear · beach · white sand · sand · reef · coral · turquoise · hammock · sea breeze · sunset · breeze · trade winds · mango · hibiscus · castaway · shipwreck

Opposites
climate/temperature

tropical islefrozen tundra

Icy treeless polar landscape

Greenland · northern wilderness · Svalbard · ice floe · tundra

geography/landscape type

tropical islemainland

Principal connected territory

continent · mountain range · hinterland · prairie

idyllic connotation

tropical islefrozen wasteland

Desolate ice-covered region

industrial city · concrete jungle · urban sprawl

Family

tropical, isle, tropic, tropics, tropically, islet, isles

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G