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1. (adj.) sultry
oppressively hot and close or humid; sweltering:
a sultry day.
2. sultry
oppressively hot; emitting great heat:
the sultry sun.
3. sultry
characterized by or arousing passion:
sultry eyes.
Etymology: (1585–95; sult(e)r (var. of swelter ) + -y1)
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| Definition of 'sultry' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) sensual, sultry
sexually exciting or gratifying
"sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance"
2. (adj) sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous
characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
"the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. sultry
very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts
2. sultry
very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air
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Sense: (of weather) hot but cloudy, and likely to become stormy.
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 Afrikaans: broeierig |
 Arabic: حار وغائِم |
 Bulgarian: зноен |
 Brazilian: pesado |
 Czech: dusný |
 German: schwül |
 Danish: lummer |
 Greek: υγρός και αποπνικτικός (γ |
 Spanish: bochornoso, sofocante |
 Estonian: lämbe |
 Farsi: شرجي |
 Finnish: painostava |
 French: étouffant |
 Hebrew: חָם וְלָח |
 Hindi: गर्म, उमसदार |
 Croatian: sparan, omaran |
 Hungarian: fülledt |
 Indonesian: panas berawan |
 Icelandic: mollulegur, heitur og rak |
 Italian: afoso |
 Japanese: 暑くるしい |
 Korean: 찌는 듯이 더운 |
 Lithuanian: tvankus |
 Latvian: tveicīgs |
 Malay: melengas |
 Dutch: zwoel |
 Norwegian: lummer, trykkende |
 Polish: parny |
 Persian: شرجي |
 Pashto: دوپ، دوبجن |
 Portuguese: pesado |
 Romanian: înăbuşitor |
 Russian: знойный; душный |
 Slovak: dusný |
 Slovenian: soparen |
 Serbian: sparan |
 Swedish: kvav, kvalmig, tryckande |
 Thai: ที่ร้อนอบอ้าว |
 Turkish: boğucu |
 Taiwanese: 悶熱的 |
 Ukrainian: такий, що припікає; душни |
 Urdu: حبس والا موسم |
 Vietnamese: oi bức, ngột ngạt |
 Chinese: 闷热的 |
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