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Sweltry

Definition: Sweltry

Sweltry

Adjective

1. Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Note: Sweltry \Swel"try\, adjective. [See Swelter, Swelt, v. i., and compare to Sultry.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Sweltry

Synonym: sweltering (adj). (additional references)

Modern Translation: Sweltry

Language		Translations for "sweltry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		breenagh (heavy, heavy of weather, oppressive, sultry), breen (airless, close, draggy, oppressive, sultry). (various references)

Pig Latin		eltrysway

Turkish		sıcaktan bunalan (sweltering), bunaltıcı (close, depressive, mind-bending, muggy, oppressive, stuffy, stupefying, suffocating, sweltering), bayıltıcı (sweltering), aşırı sıcak (piping hot, sizzling hot, sweltering, torrid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Sweltry"

Words rhyming with "sweltry" (pronounced 'Swel"try'): Attry, Avowtry, Bijoutry, Centry, Choltry, Choultry, gantry, Gentry, Misentry, Nitry, paltry, Pantry, Pastry, Phratry, Poultry, reentry, Revestry, Sawtry, Sextry, sultry, Wintry. (additional references)

Anagrams: Sweltry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-l-r-s-t-w-y"
	-1 letter: styler, twyers, wryest.
	-2 letters: lyres, slyer, strew, style, trews, treys, twyer, tyers, tyres, welts, wetly, wrest, wyles, wytes.
	-3 letters: erst, lest, lets, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, rely, rest, rets, ryes, slew, stew, stey, stye, tels, tews, trey, tyer, tyes, tyre, welt, wert, west, wets, wyes, wyle, wyte, yews.
	-4 letters: els, ers, let, ley, lye.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-r-s-t-w-y"
	+1 letter: trawleys, westerly.
	+3 letters: flyswatter, polywaters.
	+4 letters: flyswatters, worthlessly.
	+5 letters: swelteringly.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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