Sultry

Quick meaning: Sultry is an adjective meaning (weather) Hot and humid; sweltering.

Meaning

(weather) Hot and humid; sweltering.

More Meanings

1. (of the sun) Emitting great heat.
2. (figuratively) Sexually enthralling.

Example Sentences

The heat had been painfully oppressive all day; and it was now a close and sultry night.

Here in the sultriest season let him rest, / Fresh is the green beneath those aged trees; / Here winds of gentlest wing will fan his breast, / From heaven itself he may inhale the breeze: […]

Other ſignes of the Hiues fullneſſe and readineſſe to ſwarm are at the Hiue-doore, […] Fourthly, their firſt lying forth in foggy and ſultrie mornings & euenings, & going in again when the aire is cleere.

The detachment of Tancred, fifty spears and their armed retinue, which amounted fully to five hundred men, after having taken a short and hasty refreshment, were in arms and mounted before the sultry hour of noon.

Word Forms

• sultrier
• sultriest
• sultrie

Synonyms for sultry

Depending on context, synonyms include oppressive, muggy, sticky, sweltering, torrid, sensual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include torrid, hot, sulfurous, sulphurous, sensual, sensuous.

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