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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective steamy has 3 senses
- steamy(s = adj.all) steaming - filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steamy towels" Derived form noun steaminess1
- steamy(s = adj.all) muggy, sticky - hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"
- steamy(s = adj.all) aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, turned on - feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny"
CIDE DICTIONARY
steamy, a.
- Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Emitting steam; full of steam. [PJC]
- Erotic; consisting of or depicting passionate sexual activity; as, a steamy love affair; the steamy scenes were cut from the film to avoid an X rating. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
steamy, adj. (steamier, steamiest)
1 like or full of steam.
2 colloq. erotic, salacious.
1 like or full of steam.
2 colloq. erotic, salacious.
Derivative
steamily adv. steaminess n.
THESAURUS
steamy
ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, airy, ardent, arousing, beclouded, befogged, blurred, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, clouded, cloudy, concupiscent, cordial, damp, dank, delirious, dim, drunk, ejaculatory, enthusiastic, erotic, ethereal, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, goatish, hazy, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, horny, hot, hot-blooded, humid, impassioned, in rut, intense, intoxicated, itching, keen, lascivious, libidinous, lickerish, lively, lustful, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misted, misty, moist, muggy, on fire, orgasmic, orgastic, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, passionate, pneumatic, prurient, randy, red-hot, reeking, reeky, salacious, seething, sex-starved, sexually excited, sexy, smoking, smoky, sodden, steamed up, steaming, sticky, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, vigorous, warm, wet, zealousROGET THESAURUS
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Heat
N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
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