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    What does “sultry” mean?

    Sultry: hot and humid, but with better PR.

    Hot and humid, heavy, close air on a summer day or night.

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    “Sultry night, windows wide open.”

    More about sultry

    Sultry is the more romantic way to say hot and muggy. It usually describes evenings that do not cool down.

    What I think of sultry

    • Sultry: hot and humid, but with better PR.
    • A sultry night is a muggy night in a nicer outfit.
    • Sultry weather sounds glamorous until you are actually in it.

    Words people compare it with

    • Muggy: Warm, damp and airless: humid weather that feels heavy.
    • Sweltering: Uncomfortably hot, the kind of heat that makes everything sticky and slow.
    • Humid: Full of moisture: air that feels thick, sticky and slow to let sweat dry.
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