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Steamy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Filled with or emitting steam.

adj. Erotic.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. warm and humid; full of steam

adj. erotic

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty.

adj. Emitting steam; full of steam.

adj. Erotic; consisting of or depicting passionate sexual activity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Consisting of or abounding in steam; resembling steam; vaporous; misty.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. feeling great sexual desire

adj. filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist

adj. hot or warm and humid

Word Usage

"And I had some at lunch recently — a bowl so bright and cooling that if I closed my eyes I could imagine that I was no longer in steamy Manhattan but instead lounging on a breezy beach by the sea."

Equivalent

sexy wet

Variant

steamiest steamier

Form

steaminess

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

vaporous misty erotic vapor exhalation vaporou

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Mimi creamy dreamy reamy seamy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

humid muggy dank rainy smoky cloying torrid musky acrid salty