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
Additional info about word: 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 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.