Found 2 items, similar to Sultriest.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sultriest 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] [also: sultriest, sultrier] sultriest See sultry
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sultriest 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, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. [1913 Webster] When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. --Addison. [1913 Webster]