'Sweltering' definitions:
Definition of 'sweltering'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes" [syn: sweltering, sweltry]
Definition of 'Sweltering'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'sweltering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ardent,
- baking,
- blistering,
- boiling,
- broiling,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- canicular,
- clammy,
- close,
- ebullient,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- flushed,
- grilling,
- heated,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- humid,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- melting,
- muggy,
- oppressive,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- parching,
- piping hot,
- red-hot,
- roasting,
- scalding,
- scorching,
- searing,
- seething,
- simmering,
- sizzling,
- sizzling hot,
- smoking hot,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- sticky,
- stifling,
- stuffy,
- sudorific,
- suffocating,
- sultry,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltry,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- tropical,
- wet,
- white-hot,
- wilting