[
US
/ˈstimi/
]
[ UK /stˈiːmi/ ]
[ UK /stˈiːmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist
a steaming kettle
steamy towels -
hot or warm and humid
the steamy tropics
sticky weather
muggy weather -
feeling great sexual desire
feeling horny
How To Use steamy In A Sentence
- Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
- The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
- Essentially, they were in their own little humid, steamy room.
- And to get pulses racing from the off, there is a very steamy smooch between the pair in episode one. The Sun
- We often went to the park for picnics, sitting on the cannon in the sun, marvelling at the dewy luminescence of the bleeding heart begonias in the steamy green light of the conservatory.
- Hurrell helped established the identity of many actresses and actors and created an iconography of steamy sexuality with dreamy glamour.
- It invariably takes me by surprise when I enter a steamy greenhouse in winter and my glasses fog up. Times, Sunday Times
- Long colourful dresses are the style embodiment of hot days and steamy nights, so save the maxi until the mercury rises. Times, Sunday Times
- Said Victoria of their hot and steamy session: ‘We were all over each other.’
- Nevertheless, I do not see sex between consenting adults as seamy, sleazy or even necessarily steamy.