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sultry
[ suhl-tree ]
adjective
- oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering:
a sultry day.
Synonyms: humid, stifling, oppressive
- oppressively hot; emitting great heat:
the sultry sun.
- characterized by or associated with sweltering heat:
sultry work in the fields.
- characterized by or arousing passion:
sultry eyes.
sultry
/ ˈsʌltrɪ /
adjective
- (of weather or climate) oppressively hot and humid
- characterized by or emitting oppressive heat
- displaying or suggesting passion; sensual
sultry eyes
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Derived Forms
- ˈsultriness, noun
- ˈsultrily, adverb
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Other Words From
- sultri·ly adverb
- sultri·ness noun
- un·sultry adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sultry1
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Example Sentences
This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.
McDonough, in contrast, sells posters of herself in revealing clothing leaning over a car in a sultry manner.
The sultry chanteuse enraged the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain with comments she made about wanting to die young.
Next came sultry photos of Tom Ford and Aleksander Skarsgaard.
The film, silent and seven minutes in length, featured cabaret star Louise Willy performing a sultry striptease.
About midnight the combination of sultry heat and banked clouds produced the usual results.
A young Englishman, a wine merchant, accompanied us in our journey through this sultry valley and was our cicerone.
The thermometer now ranged between 87 and 89 degrees and the weather was consequently extremely oppressive and sultry.
Can it be this minute dust affecting the lungs which makes us breathe as if in the sultry hours preceding a thunder-storm?
It was a sultry summer day; all the study doors were open, and all their occupants were absent in the cricket-field, or bathing.
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