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stifling
[ stahy-fling ]
adjective
- suffocating; oppressively close:
the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
stifling
/ ˈstaɪflɪŋ /
adjective
- oppressively hot or stuffy
a stifling atmosphere
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Derived Forms
- ˈstiflingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- stifling·ly adverb
- un·stifling adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
There is so much amateur psychoanalysis in golf, it can become stifling.
This is potentially great news for anyone who’s tried to knock out a quick morning run or ride in a stifling-hot N95.
A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat.
Its recurring phrase is now the deadening, argument-stifling “As a mom,” cited frequently by Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd.
The monster tech firms are stifling competition and consolidating their power while they expand into new markets.
And nothing squelches education, or the desire for education, like stifling discourse.
A name like that might ease some of the pressure of living under such a stifling state.
The tops of the hills were laden with thunder-clouds, and the turbid atmosphere laboured with the stifling Sirocco.
He ought not to be in London now—it is stifling—went up for some business meeting or other—seemed to wish to avoid details.
While they were talking another shell entered the small apartment, exploded, and filled the air with dust and stifling fumes.
She turned from him with overflowing heart, stifling her tears, but with a veritable volcano of emotion within her young breast.
The very air seems oppressive and stifling, and laden with the dry dust of death.
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