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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | giving off vapors |
| Synonyms: | evaporating, gaseous, steaming, vaporous |
| Main Entry: | steamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erotic |
| Synonyms: | dirty, lewd, pornographic, purple, sexy |
| Main Entry: | damp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wet, humid |
| Synonyms: | clammy, cloudy, dank, dewy, drenched, dripping, drippy, drizzly, irriguous, misty, moist, muggy, oozy, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, steam bath, steamy, sticky, vaporous, waterlogged, wettish |
| Antonyms: | arid, dessicated, dried, dry, parched |
| Main Entry: | dank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clammy |
| Synonyms: | chilly, close, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, moist, muggy, slimy, soggy, steamy, sticky, wet, wettish |
| Antonyms: | dry, parched |
| Main Entry: | erotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexy |
| Synonyms: | amative, amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, bawdy, blue*, carnal, concupiscent, earthy, erogenous, fervid, filthy, fleshly, hot*, impassioned, kinky*, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, obscene, off-color, prurient, purple*, raunchy, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, titillating, venereal, voluptuous |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
| Antonyms: | bland, cold, dull, frigid, unerotic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very damp, referring to weather |
| Synonyms: | boiling, clammy, close, dank, irriguous, moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, sodden, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, watery, wet |
| Antonyms: | arid, dry |
| Main Entry: | lascivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, bawdy, blue, bodily, carnal, coarse, crude, evil-minded, fast*, fleshly, gross*, hard-core, hot*, immoral, incontinent, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, low-down, lubricious, lustful, nasty, obscene, off-color, offensive, orgiastic, pornographic, prurient, randy, raunchy*, raw, ribald, rough, salacious, scurrilous, sensual, smutty, soft-core, steamy, suggestive, unchaste, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton |
| Antonyms: | chaste, decent, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | adult, bawdy, blue*, dirty*, hot*, improper, lascivious, lewd, loose*, off-color, pornographic, purple*, ribald, risqué, steamy |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, moral, pure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hot and humid |
| Synonyms: | airless, close, heavy, muggy, overpowering, steam bath, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweat box, torrid |
| Antonyms: | cool, mild, temperate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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