Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🔥 Sexually charged 🌡️ Hot and humid 🥣 Full of steam
steamy

steamy

13 3.0
Hot and humid, often making you sweat
  • adjective
  • /ˈstiːmi/
translation icon : bochornoso
  • Despite the slowly melting snow here, it seemed warm and steamy after the sharp cold air outside.
  • a steamy jungle

And tonight, tonight we are broadcasting to you from a steamy New York City right in the right, in the crotch of summer.

Examples

  • But it can get a little steamy.

    The Ladies Man (2000)

  • Got kind of hot and steamy.

    Surf's Up (2007)

  • -It's getting hot and steamy in here.

    Cam (2018)

  • Is it steamy in here, or is it just you?

    Think Like a Man Too (2014)

  • In the morning, I walk from my hotel through steamy air on streets boiling with people to the hospital.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The rain ended, and by daybreak the summer heat was back, steamy and thick.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • A virulent sun lay close to the horizon, and the air felt steamy and dense.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Last August, on a steamy, storm-tinged morning, I stopped by the Gabinete to get an update.

    Academic text (2002)

  • By late morning, waves of steamy air were rising off the pavement and children were opening hydrants.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The weather is so steamy today that I can feel the humidity sticking to my skin.

Synonyms

hot
vssteamy
∞ 1.0

Having a high temperature and able to burn your skin

includes both warmth and humidity, not only elevated temperature
close
vssteamy
29 3.4

Too warm and without fresh air

focuses on warmth plus humidity rather than poor ventilation alone
sticky
vssteamy
24 1.0

Hot, humid weather that makes you feel sweaty and uncomfortable

is similar but emphasizes the general warm humid condition rather than sweatiness
stuffy
vssteamy
13 2.7

A room with little fresh air that feels uncomfortable to breathe in

is about heat combined with humidity rather than just poor air circulation
muggy
vssteamy
9 2.6

Warm, sticky air that feels wet and uncomfortable

expresses the same warmth and humidity but can be more neutral in tone
sultry
vssteamy
5 5.3

Very hot and humid in an uncomfortable way

is likewise warm and humid but can feel milder or less suffocating
sweltering
vssteamy
1 4.8

Weather that is very hot and humid makes you sweat and feel uncomfortable

is similarly warm and humid but usually less intensely oppressive
sulfurous
vssteamy
  • Archaic
1 7.2

Hot, heavy air that feels hard to breathe

is also warm and humid but often describes a milder, everyday sense
sweltry
vssteamy
9.1

A very hot and humid feeling that makes you uncomfortable

is about warmth with humidity but often less intensely oppressive
stewy
vssteamy
  • Australian
7.2

Hot, humid air that feels close and stuffy

focuses on heat plus humidity but not necessarily the same oppressive closeness
steaming
vssteamy
2.6

Hot and making a visible mist of water

describes hot humid conditions but usually without visible vapor

Antonyms

dry
791 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

cool
608 1.0

A fairly low temperature that feels pleasant

How Humid

sultry
5 5.3
steamy
13 3.0
muggy
9 2.6
humid
45 1.0
dry
791 1.0

Surface Forms

steamy positive

Morphology

steamy = steam (semi-transparent) = steam + y

Derived from 'steam' with an extended meaning 'hot and humid'; the link is inferable but generalized beyond literal steam.

Etymology

Steamy comes from the word steam ('hot vapour') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of', which explains the weather sense: a place full of warm, wet air feels 'hot and humid', so it is described as steamy.