Smothery

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Upper Southern U.S. Confined. Used of a place: "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't” ( Mark Twain).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Tending to smother; stifling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Tending to smother; stifling.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to smother; full of smoke, fog, dust, or the like; stifling: as, a smothery atmosphere.
  • Word Usage
    "Sleep on a porch, or in a room with windows on two sides wide open, and the average living-room or office begins to feel stuffy and "smothery" at once."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stifling