Thesaurus:muggy

Thesaurus

muggy

English

Adjective

Sense: of weather—hot, humid and windless

Synonyms

• close (UK)
• heavy
• muggy
• oppressive
• steamy
• sticky
• sultry
• sweltering
• tropic
• tropical

Antonyms

• arid
• torrid
•   —
• clammy
• dank
• raw    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• airless (figurative)
• frowsty (British)
• overclose
• stifling
• stuffy

Hypernyms

• hot    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wet    [⇒ thesaurus]
• windless

Further reading

• “339. moisture” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “muggy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.