sweltering
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sweltering
Where it comes from
From swelter + -ing.
adjective
- hot and humid; oppressively sticky The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.
verb
- present participle and gerund of swelter
noun swelterings
- The situation of being or feeling hot and humid. March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.
