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Sweltering vs Swelter - What's the difference?

sweltering | swelter |

As verbs the difference between sweltering and swelter

is that sweltering is while swelter is to suffer terribly from intense heat.

As an adjective sweltering

is (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky.

As a noun swelter is

intense heat.

sweltering

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky
    • The day was sweltering , so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

    Verb

    (head)

    • swelter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To suffer terribly from intense heat.
    • (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • To perspire greatly from heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intense heat.
    • The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.

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