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Synonyms for muggy

  • adjective

Most common

moist humid oppressive sweltering steamy

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Humid — humid, or hot and humid

wet, humid, sweltering, oppressive, moist, sticky, damp, sultry, close UK

Other

steamy

Antonyms

clammy, arid, torrid

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Humid, or hot and humid.

Related words

Is a kind of
hot wet windless

Example sentences

  • moist I baked a cake, and it came out fluffy and moist.
  • humid It is extremely hot and humid in Bali in December.
  • oppressive An oppressive feeling attacked me around the chest.
  • sweltering It's early September, and we're absolutely sweltering.
  • steamy Yanni was having a steamy affair with Ziri's wife.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
muggyrising
moistfalling
humidsteady
oppressiverising
swelteringrising
steamyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
wet1
4 letters
damp1
5 letters
close1, moist1, humid2
6 letters
sticky2, steamy2, sultry2
10 letters
oppressive3, sweltering3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (humid2 = 2 syllables).