steamy

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adj giving off vapors

adjective. pornographic

adjective. wet, humid

adjective. clammy

adjective. very damp, referring to weather

adjective. sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in sex

adjective. obscene, vulgar

adjective. hot and humid

adjective. sensual, desirous

1640s, from steam + -y (2); in the sense of "erotic, sexy," it is first recorded 1952. Related: Steamily; steaminess.

There was still enough light in the steamy cabin to discern objects.

A formless cloud of gray fog blew into the warm, steamy room.

The baby should remain in this steamy atmosphere ten minutes at a time.

The atmosphere was as steamy, as dense and as aromatic as before.

I wonder that you have kept your health as well as you have, in this steamy climate.

Perhaps it was seeing all this through the steamy, misty rain.

Even the West-end was hot and steamy on that broiling August day.

In a steamy, ice-rimmed volcano's throat on a desolate top of the world!

It is as hot as fire here, and the park has that steamy smell that a hothouse has.

The air was steamy and hot, and I was surrounded by something which chained every part.