Sweltering

Synonyms for "sweltering" (69 found)

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Closest matches (14)

ardent baking blistering boiling broiling burningburning hotcanicular clammy close ebullient

Adjective(3 words)

Strong matches (21)

feverish fiery flushed grilling heated hothot as firehot as hellhumidlike a furnacelike an ovenmelting muggy oppressive overheated overwarm parchingpiping hot

Adjective(3 words)

hot oppressive parch

Related words (34)

red hotred-hot roasting scalding scorching searing seething simmering sizzlingsizzling hotsmoking hotsteaming steamy sticky stifling stuffy sudorific suffocating sultry sweating

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sweaty sweltry toasting torrid tropical wetwhite hotwhite-hot wilting

Adjective(5 words)

scorching stifling sweltry unbearable weltering

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

atmosphere heathigh temperatureintensity

More specific

10 entries

anxious settingbakebaking heatblazing heatoppressive atmosphereparch scorchscorching heatstifling environmenttense climate

Collocations

7 entries

sweltering afternoonsweltering conditionssweltering heatsweltering heat wavesweltering humiditysweltering sunsweltering temperatures

Inflections

4 entries

more swelteringmost swelteringsweltered swelters

Derivations

5 entries

swelter sweltered swelteringly swelteringness swelters

similar

1 entries

hot

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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It's sweltering.

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It was sweltering inside.

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Layla was sweltering in a 90 degree heat.

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Tom died during the sweltering heat of August in Atlantic City.

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