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(adj)
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
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Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Moderately damp or moist.
(n)
The state of being moist.
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
Covered by dew.
The amount of water vapour in the air.
Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
Modified by humidification
A wetting agent or surfactant.
Pouring with rain; wet; showery
(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
Covered in sweat.
(usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
Something that damps or checks:
(v)
(slang) To drink water.
(of a person) Not suffering from dehydration.
(chemistry) Containing combined water; hydrated.
Physically weak.
Easily giving way under pressure.
Very large.
Newly produced or obtained; recent.
(transitive) To criticize or rebuke (someone).
Free from or lacking moisture.
(N)
a video game created by Hypnotix and published by New World Computing in 1995 for DOS.
Soaked with moisture or other liquid.
(Internet slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.
Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
(colloquial, figurative) Erotic.
The sound or action of something that drips.
Covered in mist; foggy.
(of the weather, air, etc.) Humid, or hot and humid.
Soaked with water.
(not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
Drenched with water, or other liquid.
Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
(transitive) To make moist or moister.
Juicy or lush.
Having lots of juice.
Somewhat moist.
(archaic) Full of moisture; moist; moisty.
moist
Partly or somewhat moist.
Somewhat wet; damp, moist.
(obsolete) Somewhat damp.
Characterised or marked by dampness
(past participial) Made or having become moist.
Resembling or characteristic of water.
(obsolete) A type of snuff with a musty flavour (adjective sense 2).
Supplied with moisture.
One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
(childish or poetic, rare) A wash, an act of washing.
Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.
(obsolete) A humectant.
Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
Wet with vapors; moist.
(obsolete) Moist with dew; dewy.
moist; damp; clammy
Somewhat dry.
Becoming damp or moist.
(dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.
Dampened; damp.
Obsolete form of wiry. [Resembling wire.]
Resembling or characteristic of dew.
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
Very moist.
Somewhat or partly humid.
Alternative form of musty (“in musth”). [Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.]
Covered with or as if with dew.
(figurative, informal) Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
slimy; moist and unpleasantly viscous
Alternative form of vapored. [Wet with vapors; moist.]
Resembling or characteristic of mousse, especially in texture.
Alternative form of mooree (“kind of cotton cloth”). [(obsolete) A kind of cotton cloth from India.]
Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
Resembling or characteristic of mud.
Resembling or characteristic of mousse, especially in consistency.
Partially wet.
Synonym of Udi (“a Lezgic language”).
Watery, wet, waterlogged.
(also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
Quite dry, relatively dry.
Resembling or characteristic of mist.
Inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.
(forestry) Moderately wet, but less than hydric.
Somewhat or partly mucous.
Somewhat misty.
Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
Alternative form of watersoaked. [Soaked with water.]
Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
(now rare) Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
Resembling, pertaining to, or containing dew; dewy.