sweltering
Suffocatingly hot weather
Sweltering describes oppressively hot and humid conditions—the kind of heat that makes you sweat just standing still: a sweltering August afternoon, The apartment was sweltering without air conditioning.
The word emphasizes discomfort more than mere temperature.
To swelter is to suffer in such heat.
Extremely intense or severe
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- broilingExtremely hot, or oven-top cooking
- roastingCooking with dry heat
baking · boiling · burning · fiery · blazing · sizzling · parching · sunbaked
Oppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- unbearableImpossible to endure
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
debilitating · smothering · draining · enervating · wilting · fatiguing · punishing · relentless
To leave behind completely
- tropicsWarm equatorial region
- saunaHeated room for sweating
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
jungle · equator · sun-drenched · greenhouse · hothouse · midday · midsummer · heatstroke
muggy
Unpleasantly warm and humid
clammy · tropical · damp · moist · close · heavy · balmy · swampy · dank · saturated
blistering
Extremely intense or severe
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- broilingExtremely hot, or oven-top cooking
roasting · baking · boiling · burning · fiery · blazing · sizzling · parching · sunbaked · infernal
stifling
Oppressively hot and close
- suffocatingDepriving of air
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- unbearableImpossible to endure
exhausting · debilitating · smothering · draining · enervating · wilting · fatiguing · punishing · relentless · grueling
desert
To leave behind completely
oven · jungle · equator · sun-drenched · greenhouse · hothouse · midday · midsummer · heatstroke · drought
- summersummer, summertime, midsummer, summer solstice, solstice
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- desert climatearid, aridity, dry heat, extreme heat, scorching heat
- extreme heatblazing, blistering, boiling, burning, broiling
- extreme temperaturesfreezing, boiling, scorching, frigid, subzero
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection