Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Confined. Used of a place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to smother; full of smoke, fog, dust, or the like; stifling: as, a smothery atmosphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to smother; stifling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
smother ;stifling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sleep on a porch, or in a room with windows on two sides wide open, and the average living-room or office begins to feel stuffy and "smothery" at once.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit" – though what is childish about being self-sufficient and showing understandable reluctance to throw oneself into a smothery relationship with an obviously unhappy fellow human being because surely only extremely unhappy people look to others for salvation escapes me somewhat.
Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill 2012
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Not the full ones, they feel smothery, but the nice ones for just across your eyes
Things I learned at school « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2010
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Hearty, smothery, warm and cheesy, the key to this recipe was using dried red chiles to try to create a smoky, rich flavor.
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Pluff went his feet in the smothery dust of the bush road — his black boots might have been made of white leather — the flies buzzed in chorus round his head.
Ultima Thule 2003
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When in a dark and smothery feeling corridor, it is always a good idea to see who is coming before giving them a chance to see you.
Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002
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When in a dark and smothery feeling corridor, it is always a good idea to see who is coming before giving them a chance to see you.
Dragons of a Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002
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Tas had been adventuring most of his life, and he knew his corridors, and without doubt, this corridor had the smothery feeling of a place where you want to be quiet, very quiet.
Dragons of a Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002
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Tas had been adventuring most of his life, and he knew his corridors, and without doubt, this corridor had the smothery feeling of a place where you want to be quiet, very quiet.
Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002
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I think I'd feel sort of smothery around the heart if she was dead, and I don't feel that.
Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002
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