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# sultry

«sultry» in Mova's school dictionary: **very hot and damp, still and close, with no breeze** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (sultrier, sultriest)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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