sultry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite sexually exciting or gratifying
    sensual.
    • sensual excesses
    • a sultry look
    • a sultry dance
  2. adjective satellite characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
    stifling; sulfurous; sulphurous.
    • the summer was sultry and oppressive
    • the stifling atmosphere
    • the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm

WordNet

Sul"try adjective
Etymology
From Sweltry.
Wordforms
comparative Sultrier ; superlative Sultriest
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913