sweltering

adj, noun — 2 senses

sweltering

adj

Etymology From swelter + -ing.

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.

Derived terms: swelteringly
Related terms: balmy

sweltering

noun

Etymology From swelter + -ing.

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.

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