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steamy

/ˈstiː.mi/

steamy adjective: warm and humid; full of steam.

Adjective

steamy (comparative steamier or more steamy, superlative steamiest or most steamy)

  1. Warm and humid; full of steam.
    • My glasses fogged up when I walked into the steamy room.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of steam.
  3. (colloquial, figuratively) Erotic.
    • Her latest novel was very steamy, but still managed to top the charts.
    • I'm having a steamy affair with an Armenian boxer.

steamy meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati

steamy in Hindi

भापदार

steamy in Bengali

বাষ্পময়, আর্দ্র ও উষ্ণ

steamy in Malayalam

ആവിതുല്യമായ, ബാഷ്പമുളള

steamy in Gujarati

વરાળવાળું

Examples of steamy in a sentence

  • Some of the most gothic-looking slipper orchids are found in steamy Sumatra.
  • On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed.
  • This is Madison Lake’s third steamy romantica novel in a rapidly growing collection.

All 16 example sentences with steamy

Forms of steamy

comparativesteamier
comparativemore steamy
superlativesteamiest
superlativemost steamy

Origin of steamy

From steam + -y.

Words formed from steamy

Words that rhyme with steamy

Questions about steamy

What does steamy mean?
Steamy means warm and humid; full of steam.
What is steamy in Hindi?
Steamy in Hindi is भापदार. See Steamy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is steamy?
Steamy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce steamy?
Steamy is pronounced /ˈstiː.mi/.

Words near steamy in the dictionary

  1. steamtight
  2. steamtug
  3. steamtugs
  4. steamway
  5. steamways
  6. steamy
  7. stean
  8. steaned
  9. steaning
  10. steanings
  11. steans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: steamy (page history and authors); steamy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); steamy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); steamy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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