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Word Meanings - HUMID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton. (more info) akin to uvidus moist, Gr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and

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Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton. (more info) akin to uvidus moist, Gr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and Icel. vökr

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  • DISHEARTENMENT
    Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
  • REPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being repressed.
  • BLUNTISH
    Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
  • MOISTNESS
    The quality or state of being moist.
  • HUMIDNESS
    Humidity.
  • DISCOURAGEMENT
    1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
  • MOISTURE
    1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
  • BLUNTLY
    In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
  • MODERATE
    Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
  • MOISTURELESS
    Without moisture.
  • MOISTENER
    One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
  • HUMID
    Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton. (more info) akin to uvidus moist, Gr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and
  • SLACK; SLACKEN
    1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake;
  • MODERATELY
    In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
  • DISHEARTEN
    To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay. Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.
  • DISCOUNTENANCE
    1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir
  • MOISTLESS
    Without moisture; dry.
  • MOISTY
    Moist.
  • BLUNTNESS
    1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
  • DISCOUNTENANCER
    One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
  • FORSLACK
    To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
  • AIR-SLACKED
    Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
  • UNSLACKED
    Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
  • OUTQUENCH
    To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.
  • OVERMOISTURE
    Excess of moisture.
  • IRREPRESSIBLY
    In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.

 

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