steamy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: steam=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

steamy, a. 

•  Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]
•  Emitting steam; full of steam.  [PJC]
•  Erotic; consisting of or depicting passionate sexual activity; as, a steamy love affair; the steamy scenes were cut from the film to avoid an X rating.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

steamy, adj. (steamier, steamiest)
1 like or full of steam.
2 colloq. erotic, salacious.

Derivative

steamily adv. steaminess n.

THESAURUS

steamy

ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, airy, ardent, arousing, beclouded, befogged, blurred, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, burning with excitement, clouded, cloudy, concupiscent, cordial, damp, dank, delirious, dim, drunk, ejaculatory, enthusiastic, erotic, ethereal, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, goatish, hazy, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, horny, hot, hot-blooded, humid, impassioned, in rut, intense, intoxicated, itching, keen, lascivious, libidinous, lickerish, lively, lustful, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misted, misty, moist, muggy, on fire, orgasmic, orgastic, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, passionate, pneumatic, prurient, randy, red-hot, reeking, reeky, salacious, seething, sex-starved, sexually excited, sexy, smoking, smoky, sodden, steamed up, steaming, sticky, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, vigorous, warm, wet, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

steamy

Heat

N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.