sweltering

English

Etymology

From swelter +‎ -ing.

Adjective

sweltering

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.

Translations

hot and humid

• Bulgarian: зноен (bg) (znoen)
• Catalan: xafogós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悶熱／闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh), 闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh) (mēnrè de)

• Dutch: bloedheet (nl)
• Esperanto: sufoka
• French: étouffant (fr)
• German: drückend heiß (de), glühend heiß (de), verschmachtend (de)
• Russian: знойный (ru) (znojnyj)
• Spanish: sofocante (es)
• Turkish: aşırı sıcak (tr), bunaltıcı (tr), çok sıcak (tr)

Verb

sweltering

1. present participle and gerund of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

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.

Anagrams

• e-wrestling, welterings