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say it: SWEL-tree
sweltry is an adjective meaning "excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness". It is pronounced /ˈswɛltɹi/ — SWEL-tree. It carries one recorded sense.
excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
“a sweltering room”
“sweltering athletes”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sweltry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.