Definitions for sultry

sultry sul·try

Spelling: [suhl-tree]
IPA: /ˈsʌl tri/

Sultry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in sultry (lrstuy).

Definitions for sultry

adjective

  1. oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering:
  2. oppressively hot; emitting great heat:
  3. characterized by or associated with sweltering heat:
  4. characterized by or arousing passion:

Origin of sultry

1585-95; sult(e)r (variant of swelter) + -y1

Examples for sultry

The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.

The day had been humid, warm and sultry, and the doors and windows were open.

He went to the window and gasped in the mists of the sultry air for breath.

The sultry chanteuse enraged the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain with comments she made about wanting to die young.

And then there's a brief flash of a sultry brunette, topless, alongside a fluorescent crucifix.

McDonough, in contrast, sells posters of herself in revealing clothing leaning over a car in a sultry manner.

It was sultry, and there was something in the atmosphere that at once threatened and soothed.

The film, silent and seven minutes in length, featured cabaret star Louise Willy performing a sultry striptease.

The day was sultry, and June in all its power ruled the countryside.

This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.

Word Value for sultry
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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