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• 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,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sultry — [adj1] hot and humid baking, broiling, burning, close, hot, mucky, muggy, oppressive, red hot*, scorching, sizzling, smothering, soggy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sweltering, sweltry, torrid, wet; concepts 525,605 Ant. cool, dry… …   New thesaurus

• sultry — 1590s, oppressively hot, close and moist (of weather), from obs. verb sulter to swelter (1580s), alteration of SWELTER (Cf. swelter). Fig. sense of hot with lust is attested from 1704; of women, lascivious, sensual, arousing desire it is recorded …   Etymology dictionary

• sultry — ► ADJECTIVE (sultrier, sultriest) 1) (of the weather) hot and humid. 2) displaying or suggesting passion; provocative. ORIGIN from obsolete sulter «swelter» …   English terms dictionary

• sultry — [sul′trē] adj. sultrier, sultriest [var. of SWELTRY] 1. oppressively hot and moist; close; sweltering 2. extremely hot; fiery 3. a) hot or inflamed, as with passion or lust b) suggesting or expressing smoldering passio …   English World dictionary

• sultry — sul|try [ˈsʌltri] adj [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 = ↑humid ▪ a hot and sultry day ▪ Since the rain, the air had become heavy… …   Dictionary of contemporary English