Sultry \Sul"try\ (s[u^]l"tr[y^]), a. [Compar. Sultrier
(s[u^]l"tr[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Sultriest.] [From
Sweltry.]
1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry
deserts.
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Such as, born beneath the burning sky
And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden.
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2. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and
oppressive, as air.
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When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain plant. --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sultry
adj 1: sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a
sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: sensual]
2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer
was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere";
"the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn:
stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]
3: burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid
noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert" [syn: torrid]
[also: sultriest, sultrier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "sultry":
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, airless, baking, bawdy, blue, breathless,
broiling, burning, close, damp, dirty, erotic, filthy, foul,
foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, hot, humid,
impure, ithyphallic, lewd, livid, lurid, lustful, lusty, moist,
mucky, muggy, nasty, obscene, offensive, oppressive, passionate,
pornographic, provocative, raunchy, red-hot, ribald, salacious,
scorching, scurrile, scurrilous, seductive, sensationalistic,
sensual, sexy, sizzling, smoking-room, smothering, smudgy, smutty,
soggy, steaming, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating,
sweltering, sweltry, tabloid, torrid, unchaste, unclean,
unprintable, unrepeatable, vile, voluptuous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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