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sultry


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sultry  \Sul"try\,  a.  [Compar.  {Sultrier};  superl.  {Sultriest}.] 
  [From  {Sweltry}.] 
  1.  Very  hot,  burning,  and  oppressive;  as  Libya's  sultry 
  deserts. 
 
  Such  as  born  beneath  the  burning  sky  And  sultry 
  sun,  betwixt  the  tropics  lie.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  Very  hot  and  moist,  or  hot,  close  stagnant,  and 
  oppressive,  as  air. 
 
  When  in  the  sultry  glebe  I  faint,  Or  on  the  thirsty 
  mountain  plant.  --Addison. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sultry 
  adj  1:  sexually  exciting  or  gratifying;  "sensual  excesses";  "a 
  sultry  look";  "a  sultry  dance"  [syn:  {sensual}] 
  2:  characterized  by  oppressive  heat  and  humidity;  "the  summer 
  was  sultry  and  oppressive";  "the  stifling  atmosphere"; 
  "the  sulfurous  atmosphere  preceding  a  thunderstorm"  [syn: 
  {stifling},  {sulfurous},  {sulphurous}] 
  3:  burning  hot;  extremely  and  unpleasantly  hot;  "the  torrid 
  noonday  sun";  "sultry  sands  of  the  dessert"  [syn:  {torrid}] 




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