stifling

/'staifliɳ/
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stifling

The stifling heat made it hard to breathe outside.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; suffocating: Describes an atmosphere or environment that is extremely hot, humid, and difficult to breathe in.
    • Characterized by a feeling of being restricted or suppressed: Describes a situation, atmosphere, or feeling that is oppressive, restrictive, or suffocating in a non-physical sense.

  2. Noun:

    • The forceful prevention or suppression of something: The act of putting down or crushing something, such as dissent, by power or authority.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • The air in the small, crowded room was stifling.
    • She felt a stifling sense of boredom in her routine job.
    • We opened the windows to escape the stifling heat.

  • Noun:

    • The stifling of free speech is a serious concern.
    • The regime was accused of the brutal stifling of political opposition.
Advanced Usage
  • "stiflingly" (adverb): In an oppressive or suffocating manner.
    • The afternoon was stiflingly hot.
    • The rules were stiflingly rigid, allowing for no creativity.
Variants and Related Words

  • Stifle (verb): To suppress, curb, or hold back; to make (someone) unable to breathe properly.

    • He tried to stifle a yawn during the meeting.
    • The smoke stifled the firefighters.

  • Stifled (adjective): Describes something that has been suppressed or a feeling of being suffocated.

    • She spoke with a stifled sob.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (physical): Suffocating, sultry, oppressive, muggy, airless.
  • Adjective (non-physical): Oppressive, restrictive, suffocating, repressive, constraining.
  • Noun: Suppression, quelling, crushing, repression.
Antonyms
  • Adjective: Breezy, airy, cool, refreshing, liberating.
  • Noun: Encouragement, promotion, expression, liberation.
stifling

The stifling heat made it hard to breathe outside.

Adjective
  1. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
    • the summer was sultry and oppressive
    • the stifling atmosphere
    • the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
Noun
  1. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
    • the suppression of heresy
    • the quelling of the rebellion
    • the stifling of all dissent

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