What does the word steamy mean?

Britannica Dictionary definition of STEAMY

[also more steamy; most steamy]

1 

: full of steam or warm, moist air

• It is 92 degrees in steamy Miami this afternoon.

• steamy [=hot and humid] weather

2 

: showing or relating to sex : sexually exciting

He awoke next morning from rosy scenes of dream to a steamy atmosphere that smelled of soapsuds and dirty clothes, and that was vibrant with the jar and jangle of tormented life.

And especially have I a grudge against all ardent, steaming, steamy fire-idols.

There was the warm, steamy smell of dung when the frozen door was opened, and the cows, astonished at the unfamiliar light of the lantern, stirred on the fresh straw.

I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.

The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.

It was hot and steamy. The little shaggy piebald horse was also covered with snow and coughing, I remember that very well.

She opened the door of the TOP oven;--out came a rich steamy flavour of veal and ham, and there stood a fine brown pie,--and through a hole in the top of the pie-crust there was a glimpse of a little tin patty-pan!

When I had got warmed up sufficiently to prepare me for a still warmer temperature, they took me where it was--into a marble room, wet, slippery and steamy, and laid me out on a raised platform in the centre.

The river breeze had ceased, and a hot steamy atmosphere, thick with scents, came from the forest.

And the cab jolted in front of a steamy, greasy shop in a blaze of gas and in the smell of fried fish.

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1. full of ; covered with
   • a steamy bathroom
   • He rubbed a clear patch on the steamy windows and peered out.
   • It was cold in London compared with the steamy heat of Tokyo.
   • The bathroom was warm and steamy and smelt of soap.
2. (informal) sexually exciting synonym erotic

Flash flood warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued throughout the region as a cold front mixed with steamy air lodged over the Washington area, triggering multiple thunderstorms.

• Ella’s steamy, verdant Thailand shifts to the cold, slate gray rain of Elena’s Paris.

• Zilch, what with Showtime's other steamy sex-heavy drama, The Affair, stealing its thunder.

• This is nudity as lifestyle, health, openness — not seamy or steamy.

• We were careful with how we dealt with suspected patients and what we did with our primitive coverings, it was steamy.

• The packed church had grown steamy with the approach of a summer storm.

• The trailer was too sappy to go with my friends and the poster was too steamy to go with my parents.

• This steamy heat is the very deuce to work in, and I'll be glad of the lay-off on Sunday.

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

• A mouth ripped apart on the skull, and the chest began to move with a wet steamy sound in irregular gasps.

• After the noise and steamy heat of the dining-room, this was an example our two friends were not sorry to follow.

• Merry saw how the thing was done one steamy hot day at Palembang, and he saw quite stark and plain.

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British Dictionary definitions for steamy

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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