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# steamy

«steamy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Full of steam, the hot water vapour: "a steamy bathroom"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (steamy, steamier, steamiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Full of steam, the hot water vapour: "a steamy bathroom". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#m1)

2) Hot and wet, like the air in a rainforest: "a steamy jungle". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, a steamy bathroom shows evaporation and condensation: steam meets the cold mirror and turns back into water drops. In geography, tropical places are hot and steamy. Phrases: steamy bathroom, steamy windows, hot and steamy.

### examples

- The bathroom was steamy after my shower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x1)
- The windows were steamy, so I drew a smiley face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x2)
- The rainforest is hot and steamy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x3)
- A steamy bowl of soup sat on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x4)
- The kitchen got steamy while the pasta cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x5)
- Open a window to let the steamy air out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/#x6)

### note

Comparative: steamier, steamiest. From "steam". Science: steam is actually invisible; the white cloud you see is tiny water drops that formed as it cooled. Safety: steam from a kettle can burn badly.

### In the corpora

- [In a steamy bathroom you turn on the fan and open the door after, because damp grows mould.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/16/)
- [After a steamy bath or shower, turn on the fan and open the door; damp air makes mould grow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/20/)
- [Blowing on soup sweeps away the warm, steamy air above it, so more steam escapes and carries heat away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steamy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steamy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.