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.

   • 2026 October 10, Sheila Flynn, “Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago - why are they resuming now?”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 October 2026:

     It was 14 August 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky, a sweltering Friday in the middle of a legendary heatwave.

Derived terms

• swelteringly

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
• Estonian: lämbe
• French: étouffant (fr)
• German: drückend heiß (de), glühend heiß (de), verschmachtend (de)
• Russian: знойный (ru) (znojnyj)
• Spanish: sofocante (es), abrasador (es), bochornoso (es)
• Swedish: stekhet (sv)
• Turkish: aşırı sıcak (tr), bunaltıcı (tr), çok sıcak (tr)

See also

• balmy

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