Word Meanings - MOIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak. 2. Fresh, or new. "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of moist and corny ale." Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOIST)

• Damp
• blunt
• dishearten
• quench
• slack
• moderate
• humid
• wet
• moist
• discourage
• discountenance
• repress
• Humid
• Moist
• vaporous
• spongy
• damp

Related words: (words related to MOIST)

• 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
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• 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.
• 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.