different between muggy vs stifling
muggy
English
Etymology
From Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??i/
- Rhymes: -??i
Adjective
muggy (comparative muggier, superlative muggiest)
- (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid.
- (obsolete) wet or mouldy
- muggy straw
Synonyms
- (of the weather): close, oppressive, sticky, sultry
Translations
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stifling
English
Adjective
stifling (comparative more stifling, superlative most stifling)
- That stifles.
- The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
Translations
Verb
stifling
- present participle of stifle
Noun
stifling (plural stiflings)
- The act by which something is stifled.
- 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
- Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
- 1857, Henry Clay Fish, Pulpit eloquence of the nineteenth century (page 507)
Anagrams
- filsting, fistling, flitings, liftings
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