333 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ stˈa͡ɪflɪŋ], [ stˈa‍ɪflɪŋ], [ s_t_ˈaɪ_f_l_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for stifling:

• airless (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• close (adjective)
• heavy (adjective)
• humid (adjective)
• oppressive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• sultry (adjective)
• suppressive (adjective)
• sweltering (adjective)
• torrid (adjective)
• tropic (adjective)
• crushing (noun)
• hot (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• de-motivating (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "stifling" in context?

Paraphrases for stifling

Homophones for stifling

Synonyms for Stifling:

• adj.

  • airless (adjective)
  • confined,
  • unventilated,
  • suffocating,
  • unaired,
  • fetid,
  • breathless,
  • thick,
  • muggy,
  • stagnant.
  • all (adjective)
  • stifling,
  • sulfurous,
  • sulphurous.
  • close (adjective)
  • fusty,
  • sweltry,
  • stale-smelling,
  • choky.
  • heavy (adjective)
  • sodden.
  • humid (adjective)
  • mucky,
  • more irriguous,
  • most irriguous.
  • oppressive (adjective)
  • over-powering,
  • over powering.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • humid,
  • Irriguous,
  • sweltering,
  • airless,
  • sweat box,
  • austral,
  • stuffy,
  • tropic,
  • suppressive,
  • heavy,
  • tropical,
  • sultry,
  • close,
  • torrid,
  • oppressive.
  • sultry (adjective)
  • REDHOT,
  • more smothering,
  • most smothering.
  • suppressive (adjective)
  • covering up.
  • sweltering (adjective)
  • most stewing,
  • more stewing.
  • torrid (adjective)
  • more parching,
  • most austral,
  • most parching,
  • more austral,
  • more scorched,
  • most scorched.
  • tropic (adjective)
  • very warm.

• n.

  •
  • boiling,
  • red hot,
  • scalding,
  • warm,
  • balmy,
  • scorching,
  • burning,
  • mild.
  •
  • cramped,
  • unnatural,
  • troubling,
  • unsettling,
  • strained,
  • claustrophobic,
  • uncomfortable,
  • strange,
  • tight.
  • crushing (noun)
  • crushing.
  • hot (noun)
  • hot.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • bar,
  • coercion,
  • prevention.

• v.

  • de-motivating (verb)
  • depressing,
  • disheartening,
  • curbing,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Dissuading,
  • throttling,
  • Disinclining,
  • impeding,
  • daunting,
  • de-motivating,
  • Deterring,
  • dampening,
  • frustrating,
  • hindering,
  • Hampering,
  • discouraging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • extinction.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • censoring,
  • foetid,
  • crack down,
  • constrain,
  • cut back,
  • hold back,
  • Muting,
  • contrary,
  • contain,
  • forbid,
  • quelling,
  • dismal,
  • bitter,
  • arid,
  • overpowering,
  • Checking,
  • cumber,
  • put-down,
  • retrenchment,
  • Damping,
  • monotonous,
  • troublesome,
  • extinguishing,
  • forbiddance,
  • hiding,
  • cutback,
  • virulent,
  • boring,
  • kneeing,
  • Silencing,
  • interdiction,
  • blistery,
  • Terminating,
  • suffocate,
  • parched,
  • repressing,
  • acid,
  • cut-off,
  • hinder,
  • controlling,
  • sensual,
  • smothering,
  • veil,
  • dying,
  • censorship,
  • fasten,
  • cooking,
  • keep down,
  • restrictive,
  • stale,
  • confining,
  • broiling,
  • repression,
  • control,
  • obstruction,
  • tedious,
  • Oppressing,
  • acerb,
  • roasting,
  • frustration,
  • pall,
  • surrounding,
  • windless,
  • Obstructing,
  • coerce,
  • counterproductive,
  • annihilation,
  • curtailment,
  • repress,
  • blackout,
  • clammy,
  • acerbic,
  • deter,
  • encumber,
  • contraction,
  • preclusion,
  • deadening,
  • Dulling,
  • iron curtain,
  • frowzy,
  • ban,
  • downsizing,
  • moistening,
  • purge,
  • cessation,
  • strangulation,
  • washing,
  • Suppressing,
  • unendurable,
  • occlusive,
  • crosswise,
  • Precluding,
  • choking,
  • hindrance,
  • musty,
  • suppress,
  • leaden,
  • burning hot,
  • hush up,
  • clamp down,
  • abridgment,
  • dousing,
  • curtail,
  • inhibit,
  • subjugate,
  • restraint,
  • Muffling,
  • ending,
  • blocking,
  • obstructive,
  • wraps,
  • ponderous,
  • frowsty,
  • discontinuation,
  • Squashing,
  • annulment,
  • abolition,
  • quell,
  • prohibition,
  • canicular,
  • Preventing,
  • prosaic,
  • end,
  • steamy,
  • restrain,
  • stodgy,
  • blistering,
  • termination,
  • caustic,
  • blazing,
  • quenching,
  • mouldy,
  • cutting off,
  • asphyxiation,
  • confine,
  • steaming,
  • repressive,
  • fiery,
  • staid,
  • impede,
  • quash,
  • fuggy,
  • unbearable,
  • softening,
  • halt,
  • smashing,
  • curtain,
  • stop,
  • moist,
  • concealing,
  • surcease,
  • chasten,
  • reeking,
  • wilting,
  • Interruptive,
  • Stultifying,
  • mildewy,
  • unvented,
  • Containing,
  • Drowning,
  • overwhelming,
  • suppression,
  • liquidation,
  • hold,
  • Frouzy,
  • cracking down on,
  • dull,
  • Discontinuing,
  • venomous,
  • killing,
  • Interdicting,
  • Obstruent,
  • damp,
  • Subduing,
  • garrote,
  • Hushing,
  • vitriolic,
  • inhibition,
  • abridgement,
  • interdict,
  • check,
  • snuff out,
  • asphyxiating,
  • baking,
  • uninteresting,
  • Quashing,
  • nullification,
  • Interrupting,
  • scorched,
  • sizzling,
  • wet,
  • Breezeless,
  • interference,
  • weakening,
  • suffocation,
  • security,
  • debar,
  • stifle,
  • stifled,
  • Subdual,
  • melting,
  • withholding,
  • Gagging,
  • halting,
  • Smothery,
  • inhibiting,
  • bound,
  • strangling,
  • Squelching,
  • choke,
  • Prohibiting,
  • subdue,
  • forbidding,
  • Restraining,
  • Ceasing,
  • beset,
  • negation,
  • gloomy,
  • concealment,
  • elimination,
  • estival,
  • Parching,
  • sticky,
  • inhibitive,
  • frowsy,
  • bleak,
  • smudgy,
  • in the way,
  • quench,
  • stopping,
  • putting down,
  • Quieting,
  • conquering,
  • moderating,
  • dry-as-dust,
  • extermination,
  • acrid,
  • Extinguishment,
  • detain,
  • constrictive,
  • sunny,
  • beat out,
  • bamboo curtain,
  • contract.

How to use "Stifling" in context?

Paraphrases for Stifling:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    suffocating.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Suppressing.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    affecting, arresting, blocking, constraining, controlling, crushing, damaging, discouraging, extinguishing, grinding, growing, halting, hindering, hurting, impeding, inhibiting, limiting, punishing, quelling, repressing, restricting, sanctioning, slowing, stopping, straining, strangling, Abolishing, Checking, Deleting, Denying, Deterring, Disrupting, Dissuading, Drowning, Hampering, Harming, Impairing, Obstructing, Oppressing, Reining, Removing, Restraining, Silencing, curbing, Containing, Counteracting, Curtailing, Prosecuting, Stemming, penalizing, negating, undermining, countering, redressing, criminalizing, killing, detering.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    choking, nipping, smothering, suffocating.

Homophones for Stifling:

• sheet piling, suitableness, stableness, stabling.