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synonyms for choky

  • tight
  • confined
  • heavy
  • stale
  • stifling
  • suffocating
  • sweltering
  • thick
  • airless
  • breathless
  • fusty
  • moldy
  • motionless
  • muggy
  • musty
  • stagnant
  • stale-smelling
  • sticky
  • stuffy
  • sultry
  • sweltry
  • uncomfortable
  • unventilated

antonyms for choky

MOST RELEVANT
  • cool
  • dry
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How to use choky in a sentence

A subdued, choky roar, or growl, was borne down the front stairway from above.
THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOATRUEL PERLEY SMITH
It's dreadful choky, sitting by the hour and filling up that poor innocent with lies.
WANDERING HEATHSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH
Twice Christopher read the letter, his eyes wide, and his throat a bit choky with emotion.
CHRISTOPHER AND THE CLOCKMAKERSSARA WARE BASSETT
With rather a choky feeling he closed the door and went tiptoeing upstairs.
THE FORSYTE SAGA, VOLUME III.JOHN GALSWORTHY
I think "Auld Lang Syne" produced a choky feeling in the throats of most of us—so many are gone for ever.
SERVANTS OF THE GUNSJEFFERY E. JEFFERY
"Wonder if I got pinched again, and this is some new kind of a choky," he mused.
"WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD" AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SEAMORGAN ROBERTSON
His tongue hung out of his mouth like the tongue of a tied calf, and he panted with choky, slobbering sounds.
BACK HOMEIRVIN S. COBB
Clancy, her heart beating and throat choky with fear, was nevertheless sufficient mistress of herself to be able to appreciate it.
FIND THE WOMANARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE
The "first mate" was tossing back and forth in the crib, making odd little choky noises in his swollen throat.
THE DEPOT MASTERJOSEPH C. LINCOLN
Leila could see the long white throat above those rigid arms straining and swallowing; it gave her a choky feeling to watch it.
SAINT'S PROGRESSJOHN GALSWORTHY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO CHOKY

  • airless
  • breathless
  • choky
  • confined
  • fusty
  • heavy
  • moldy
  • motionless
  • muggy
  • musty
  • stagnant
  • stale
  • stale-smelling
  • sticky
  • stifling
  • stuffy
  • suffocating
  • sultry
  • sweltering
  • sweltry
  • thick
  • tight
  • uncomfortable
  • unventilated
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.