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# sultry

adjective (sultrier, sultriest)

«sultry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Sultry means very hot and damp, still and close, with no breeze. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultry/#m1)

### In the lessons

weather that is heavy and hot, often before a storm, making people tired or cross

### Examples

- It was a sultry summer afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultry/#x1)
- The sultry air made us sleepy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultry/#x2)
- We waited for the storm in the sultry heat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultry/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sultry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sultry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sultry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sultry.html) on Mova free.