sultry[adjective]Synonyms:- humid, close, hot, muggy, oppressive, sticky, stifling
- seductive, provocative, sensual, sexy
(informal)
Related Idioms: hot as Hades, hot as old Billy Hell
Related Words: smothering,
smothery,
smudgy,
stifling,
suffocating [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
sul‧try /ˈsʌltri/
adjective[
Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: sulter 'to be uncomfortably hot' (16-17 centuries), from swelter]
1. weather that is sultry is hot with air that feels wet
Synonym : humid:
a hot and sultry day Since the rain, the air had become heavy and still and sultry.2. a woman who is sultry makes other people feel strong sexual attraction to her:
She threw Carlo a sultry glance. a sultry film star—sultriness noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲