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sultriness

/suhl-tree/US // ˈsʌl tri //UK // (ˈsʌltrɪ) //

闷热,闷气,闷热度,闷热感

Related Words

muggy闷热,闷热的,闷闷不乐,闷骚soggy潮湿的,潮湿,潮濕的,潮濕oppressive压迫性,压迫性的,压抑的,压迫scorching灼热的,灼热,炙热的,炙热hot热的,热,热销,热点sticky粘稠的,黏糊糊的,粘性,粘稠sizzling咝咝声,咝咝作响的,咝咝声响,咝咝声声torrid烦人的,烦人,烦人的事,烦人的事情sweltering炎热的,炎热的天气,闷热的天气,炎热stifling令人窒息的,压抑的,压抑,窒息sexy性感,性感的,性感的人seductive诱人的,诱人,诱惑人的,诱惑力voluptuous丰满的,丰满,妖艳的,妖艳steamy蒸汽的,热闹的,蒸汽,热闹broiling炙烤,烧烤,焙烧,炙烤法burning燃烧,燃烧的,焚烧,灼烧close关闭,密切,结束,靠近red-hot炽热的,炽热,红红火火,火热的stuffy闷闷不乐,闷热,闷,闷热的wet湿润,湿的,湿润的,湿式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    sul·tri·er, sul·tri·est.

    • : oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmugginess
Synonyms
dampness潮湿,潮湿度,潮湿性,潮湿程度humidity湿度,湿度问题,湿度方面,湿气humidness潮湿度,潮湿性,湿润度,潮湿oppressiveness压迫性,压迫感,压抑性,压制性

Examples

  • For that, we have Ashunta Sheriff-Kendricks to thank, Henson’s go-to makeup artist responsible for that sultry beat that we’ll surely be talking about all season.

  • With Perl in particular, a former makeup artist, there is a sultriness to her metallic eye shadow and her painted lips.

  • We expected a certain amount of sultriness, but not in such lavish prodigality as it was delivered.

  • The night was dark,—no moon being visible,—and an oppressive sultriness was in the atmosphere.

  • Isis goes to Byblos; she arrives there fatigued with sultriness, thirst, and the toilsome, stony road.

  • The prisoner herself seemed happily to be quite fresh and not affected by the sultriness of the day.

  • Upon him and his mother lay the sultriness of a brewing tempest.

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