Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweltering

/swˈɛltɚɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: swel-ter-ing
IPA: /swˈɛltɚɪŋ/

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

hot and humid; oppressively sticky

verb

present participle and gerund of swelter

noun

The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From swelter + -ing.

Inflected Forms

swelterings (plural)

Derived Forms

swelteringly

Frequently Paired Words

balmy

Synonyms

sweltry

Rhymes With

sheltering

Questions

How do you pronounce sweltering?: The recorded pronunciation is /swˈɛltɚɪŋ/.
What does sweltering mean?: hot and humid; oppressively sticky
Where does sweltering come from?: From swelter + -ing.

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