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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUL'TRY, a.
1. Very hot, burning and oppressive; as Libya's sultry deserts.
2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant and unelastic; as air or the atmosphere. A sultry air is usually enfeebling and oppressive to the human body.
Such as born beneath the burning sky
And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: sensual, sultry]
2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn: sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sultrier; -est) Etymology: obsolete English sulter to swelter, alteration of English swelter Date: 1594 1. a. very hot and humid ; sweltering <a sultry day> b. burning hot ; torrid <a sultry sun> 2. a. hot with passion or anger b. exciting or capable of exciting strong sexual desire <sultry glances> • sultrily adverb • sultriness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sultrier, sultriest) 1 (of the atmosphere or the weather) hot or oppressive; close. 2 (of a person, character, etc.) passionate; sensual. Derivatives: sultrily adv. sultriness n. Etymology: obs. sulter SWELTER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sultry Sul"try, a. [Compar. Sultrier; superl. Sultriest.] [From Sweltry.] 1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden. 2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Sultry weather is hot and damp. (WRITTEN) The climax came one sultry August evening. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Someone who is sultry is attractive in a way that suggests hidden passion. (WRITTEN) ...a dark-haired sultry woman. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Hot and close, warm and damp, close, stifling, oppressive, muggy.

Moby Thesaurus

Fescennine, Rabelaisian, airless, baking, bawdy, blue, breathless, broiling, burning, close, damp, dirty, erotic, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, hot, humid, impure, ithyphallic, lewd, livid, lurid, lustful, lusty, moist, mucky, muggy, nasty, obscene, offensive, oppressive, passionate, pornographic, provocative, raunchy, red-hot, ribald, salacious, scorching, scurrile, scurrilous, seductive, sensationalistic, sensual, sexy, sizzling, smoking-room, smothering, smudgy, smutty, soggy, steaming, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sweltering, sweltry, tabloid, torrid, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile, voluptuous