What does sweltering mean?
Sweltering means (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.
The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.
March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.
Use sweltering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sweltering means (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.
Common synonyms include hot, sweltry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.
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