sweltering

English

Etymology

From swelter +‎ -ing.

Adjective

sweltering

1. (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky

   The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

Translations

hot and humid

Bulgarian: зноен (bg) (znoen) Catalan: xafogós (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 悶熱 / 闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh), 闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh) (mēnrè de) Dutch: bloedheet (nl) Esperanto: sufoka French: étouffant (fr) German: drückend heiß (de), glühend heiß (de), verschmachtend (de) Russian: знойный (ru) (znojnyj) Spanish: sofocante (es), abrasador (es) Swedish: stekhet (sv) Turkish: aşırı sıcak (tr), bunaltıcı (tr), çok sıcak (tr)

See also

• balmy

Verb

sweltering

1. present participle and gerund of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
   • March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook

     It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.

Anagrams

• e-wrestling, welterings