'Sultry' definitions:
Definition of 'sultry'
From: WordNet
adjective
Sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: sensual, sultry]
adjective
Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn: sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]
Definition of 'Sultry'
From: GCIDE
- Sultry \Sul"try\ (s[u^]l"tr[y^]), a. [Compar. Sultrier (s[u^]l"tr[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Sultriest.] [From Sweltry.]
- 1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. [1913 Webster]
- Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. [1913 Webster]
- When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sultry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airless,
- baking,
- bawdy,
- blue,
- breathless,
- broiling,
- burning,
- close,
- damp,
- dirty,
- erotic,
- Fescennine,
- filthy,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulsome,
- hot,
- humid,
- impure,
- ithyphallic,
- lewd,
- livid,
- lurid,
- lustful,
- lusty,
- moist,
- mucky,
- muggy,
- nasty,
- obscene,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- passionate,
- pornographic,
- provocative,
- Rabelaisian,
- raunchy,
- red-hot,
- ribald,
- salacious,
- scorching,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- seductive,
- sensationalistic,
- sensual,
- sexy,
- sizzling,
- smoking-room,
- smothering,
- smudgy,
- smutty,
- soggy,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- sticky,
- stifling,
- stuffy,
- suffocating,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- tabloid,
- torrid,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- vile,
- voluptuous