Sultry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Very humid and hot: sultry July weather.
  • adj. Extremely hot; torrid: the sultry sands of the desert.
  • adj. Expressing or arousing desire: a sultry look; a sultry dance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. hot and humid
  • adj. very hot and dry; torrid
  • adj. sexually enthralling
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Very hot, burning, and oppressive.
  • adj. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Giving forth great or oppressive heat.
  • Very hot and moist; heated, close, stagnant, and heavy: as, a sultry atmosphere; a sultry night.
  • Associated with oppressive heat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
  • adj. sexually exciting or gratifying
  • Equivalent
    hot   
    Variant
    sultrier    sultriest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hot    closed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    humid    rainy    chilly    sunny    balmy    hazy    seductive    stormy    steamy    languid