steamily
In sultry fashion
In a manner suggesting heat, moisture, or sexual tension.
Steam rises from hot surfaces, and steamily carries that image into description—windows fog, breath visible in cold air, or passion simmers between characters: They kissed steamily in the doorway.
The word appears most often in romance writing.
In an alluring manner
- sensuallyIn a pleasure-seeking manner
- provocativelyIn an inciting manner
- lustilyWith hearty energy
- sultrilyIn a sensually provocative way
raunchily · titillatingly · salaciously · coquettishly · suggestively · flirtatiously · amorously · intimately
In an unclear manner
- foggilyIn an unclear manner
- hazilyIn unclear fashion
- muggilyIn humid, stifling manner
- humidlyWith atmospheric moisture
damply · cloudily · vaporously · sweatily · clammily · moistly · warmly · tropically
With intense fervor
- swelteringlyIn extreme heat
- sizzlinglyWith intense, audible heat
- scaldinglyIn an extremely hot manner
- torridlyWith extreme heat
scorchingly · fierily · feverishly · blazingly · searingly · warmly · suffocatingly · oppressively
With intense emotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- ardentlyWith intense feeling
- vehementlyWith intense force
- zealouslyWith extreme devotion
fiercely · heatedly · intensely · emotionally · urgently · breathlessly · dramatically · explosively
seductively
In an alluring manner
- sensuallyIn a pleasure-seeking manner
- provocativelyIn an inciting manner
- lustilyWith hearty energy
sultrily · raunchily · titillatingly · salaciously · coquettishly · suggestively · flirtatiously · amorously · intimately · passionately
mistily
In an unclear manner
humidly · damply · cloudily · vaporously · sweatily · clammily · moistly · warmly · tropically · murkily
hotly
With intense fervor
- swelteringlyIn extreme heat
- sizzlinglyWith intense, audible heat
- scaldinglyIn an extremely hot manner
torridly · scorchingly · fierily · feverishly · blazingly · searingly · warmly · suffocatingly · oppressively · stickily
passionately
With intense emotion
- ferventlyWith intense passionate feeling
- ardentlyWith intense feeling
- vehementlyWith intense force
zealously · fiercely · heatedly · intensely · emotionally · urgently · breathlessly · dramatically · explosively · tempestuously
steamilychastely
In a pure manner
coldly · frigidly · icily · platonically · prudishly
steamilyclearly
Without ambiguity
sharply · crisply · transparently · distinctly · lucidly
- steaming hotExtremely heated, releasing vapor
- steaming upCondensation obscuring surfaces
- steaming heap
- steaming aheadProceeding with energy
- steaming cup
- steaming bowl