| Main Entry: | sweltering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
Synonyms: |
airless, baking, broiling, burning, close, fiery, humid, oppressive, perspiring, scorching, sizzling, stewing, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltry, torrid |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool, freezing |
| Main Entry: | swelter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffocate |
Synonyms: |
boil, broil, fry, perspire, roast, sweat, wilt |
| Main Entry: | swelter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn up |
Synonyms: |
boil, burn, fret, heat, languish, perspire, roast, stew, suffocate, sweat, wallow |
Antonyms: |
freeze |
| Main Entry: | broil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook under direct heat |
Synonyms: |
burn, melt, roast, scorch, sear, swelter |
Antonyms: |
freeze |
| Main Entry: | broiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
Synonyms: |
baking, burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, torrid |
Antonyms: |
freezing |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
Synonyms: |
airless, breathless, choky, confined, fusty, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, stale-smelling, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, thick, tight, uncomfortable, unventilated |
Antonyms: |
cool, dry |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become hot |
Synonyms: |
bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up |
Antonyms: |
cool, freeze |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
Synonyms: |
baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
| Main Entry: | humid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very damp, referring to weather |
Synonyms: |
boiling, clammy, close, dank, irriguous, moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, sodden, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, watery, wet |
Antonyms: |
arid, dry |
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit liquid |
Synonyms: |
bleed, discharge, drain, dribble, drip, drop, escape, exude, filter, flow, issue, leach, leak, overflow, percolate, perspire, seep, spurt, strain, sweat, swelter, trickle, weep, well |