sultry

1. 1.

   sexually exciting or gratifying

   “sensual excesses”

   “a sultry look”

   “a sultry dance”

   Synonymssensual

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2. 2.

   characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

   “the summer was sultry and oppressive”

   “the stifling atmosphere”

   “the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm”

   Synonymsstiflingsulfuroussulphurous

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Other forms of sultry

comparative or superlative

sultrier

comparative or superlative

sultriest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sultry

What does sultry mean?

sultry means "sexually exciting or gratifying". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sultry?

sultry has 2 syllables: sul-try. The stress falls on "sul". In IPA it is /ˈsʌltɹi/.

What is another word for sultry?

Close synonyms include sensual, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sultry a common word?

sultry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.