sultry
Meaning of sultry
adjective
- (of the air or weather) hot and humid.
the sultry late summer weather had brought swarms of insects
the air was warm, slightly humid but not sultry
- (of a person, especially a woman) attractive in a way that suggests a passionate nature.
a sultry French au pair
late 16th century: from obsolete sulter ‘swelter’.
Information about sultry
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of sultry
sul-try
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- sultry is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
sultry synonyms
Meaning sensual:
Meaning stifling:
stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous
Meaning marked by a relatively high level of water vapour in the atmosphere:
Meaning uncomfortably humid or airless:
Meaning stuffy; not ventilated:
Meaning (of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation:
Meaning causing difficulty in breathing:
Meaning (of weather) close and sultry:
Meaning (of the weather) unpleasantly warm and humid:
Meaning (of the weather) hot and humid; muggy:
Meaning uncomfortably hot:
Meaning very hot and humid:
Meaning very hot and dry:
Meaning (of a place) hot and humid:
Meaning of great weight; difficult to lift or move:
Meaning having a high degree of heat or a high temperature:
Meaning of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature:
Meaning extremely hot:
Meaning tending to form clots; sticky:
Meaning arising from intense feelings of sexual love:
Meaning (of a person) appealing to look at; sexually alluring:
Meaning sexually attractive or exciting:
Meaning curvaceous and sexually attractive (typically used of a woman):
Meaning very sexually attractive:
Meaning relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement:
Meaning tempting and attractive; enticing:
Meaning causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately:
Meaning powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating; seductive:
Meaning appealing to or attracting someone, even if wrong or unwise:
sultry antonyms
Meaning of or at a fairly low temperature:
Meaning of or at a low or relatively low temperature, especially when compared with the human body:
Meaning serving to refresh or reinvigorate someone:
Translation of sultry
- Spanish: pesado, húmedo
- French: lourd
- German: schwül
- Italian: afoso, opprimente, appiccicaticcio
Anagrams of sultry
Words that rhyme with sultry
paltry, psaltry, unpaltry, peltry, sweltry, daredeviltry, deviltry, Goltry, choltry, choultry, poultry, unsultry
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