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🔥 Sexually charged 🌡️ Hot and humid 🥣 Full of steam
steamy

steamy

20 7.2
Showing strong sexual desire or causing sexual excitement
  • adjective
  • /ˈstiːmi/
  • NSFW
translation icon : subido de tono
  • Between the friendship, office drama, and steamy romances, the incredible cast of American and French talent completely and absolutely delivers.
  • steamy scene
  • steamy sex
  • steamy romance

There's been like one or two steamy scenes, but those have been nice I guess.

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Examples

  • The pair embarked on a steamy affair, which TJ then said publicly was "a grave mistake."

    Blog text (34)

  • Sometimes a steamy letter will do.

    Chasing Amy (1997)

  • Well, you know he might be into some heavy phone sex, which means you might be in for a steamy night, old boy.

    Twist (2021)

  • The whole romance was just steamy, hot, amazing connection, and it fell apart.

    Mat Boggs

  • "Did I interrupt some steamy bedroom scene?"

    Fiction book (1992)

  • There's been like one or two steamy scenes, but those have been nice I guess.

    cari can read

  • Yes, it's about a working girl with a very steamy fantasy life, including a thing for her sexy plumber.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • In 2008, Deatri won the coveted Emma Award for Best Steamy Romance of the Year with her title Whisper.

    Blog text (19)

  • The movie featured several steamy scenes that left the audience breathless.

  • Their steamy conversation hinted at the chemistry between them.

Synonyms

hot
vssteamy
  • NSFW
464 7.5

Feeling strong sexual desire or being sexually attractive

is about a charged atmosphere in people or situations
horny
vssteamy
  • NSFW
193 7.2

Feeling a strong desire for sex

is more neutral and can describe mood or scene, not slangy feeling
turned on
vssteamy
  • NSFW
35 7.9

Feeling sexual desire for someone

can describe atmospheres as well as individual physical arousal
salacious
vssteamy
  • Offensive
24 9.9

Too interested in sex in a way that makes people uncomfortable

focuses on sensual charge rather than moral judgment or obscenity
aroused
vssteamy
  • NSFW
1 6.6

Feeling sexual excitement or desire

also applies to situations as well as personal feeling
randy
vssteamy
  • NSFW
1 8.7

Feeling strong desire to have sex

is broader, used for charged people or situations rather than playful urge
torchy
vssteamy
  • NSFW
9.9

Making people feel sexual desire in a soft, suggestive way

is stronger, describing a more intensely charged sexual mood
ruttish
vssteamy
  • NSFW
9.9

Feeling a strong desire for sex

is less animalistic and more about human sensual atmosphere

Antonyms

unromantic
8 4.1

Not likely to make people feel love for each other

How Sexual

pornographic
  • Offensive
49 7.2
steamy
  • NSFW
20 7.2
sexy
  • NSFW
681 4.1
racy
  • NSFW
18 7.9
suggestive
  • Offensive
9 6.0

Surface Forms

steamy positive
steamier comparative
steamiest superlative

Morphology

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

Formation from 'steam' + '-y' is clear, but the sexual sense arises via a metaphorical shift from 'hot/moist', so the exact meaning is not directly predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Steamy comes from the word steam ('hot vapour') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of', and a helpful way to remember the sexual sense is to think of someone 'hot' and heated like a room full of steam, so steamy can mean 'sexually charged'.