stiflingadjective
uk/ˈstaɪ.fəl.ɪŋ/us/ˈstaɪ.fəl.ɪŋ/stifling adjective (NO AIR)
extremely hot and unpleasant:
I can't bear this stifling humidity.
Several hundred people were crammed into the stifling room.
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Hot & heat
- beat
- blistering
- boil
- boiling
- burning
- closeness
- dog days
- fug
- heat
- heating
- heatwave
- mirage
- overheat
- red-hot
- sizzling
- steaming
- stuffy
- sweltering
- thermo-
- torrid
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stifling adjective (PREVENT HAPPENING)
preventing something from happening:
stifling bureaucracy
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Unhelpful and Uncooperative
- awkward
- awkwardly
- deterrent
- foot
- it's every man for himself idiom
- man
- obstructionism
- obstructive
- passive-aggressive
- pre-emptive
- stultifying
- uncooperative
- under your feet idiom
- unhelpful
stiflingly
adverb uk/ˈstaɪ.fəl.ɪŋ.li/us/ˈstaɪ.fəl.ɪŋ.li/
It's stiflingly hot in here.