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Word Meanings - WETTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat wet; moist; humid.

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  • MOISTNESS
    The quality or state of being moist.
  • HUMIDNESS
    Humidity.
  • SOMEWHAT
    1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • MOISTLESS
    Without moisture; dry.
  • MOISTY
    Moist.
  • MOIST
    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.
  • MOISTEN
    1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon. 2. To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.
  • MOISTFUL
    Full of moisture.
  • HUMIDITY
    Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing. Note: In hygrometrical reports (as of
  • OVERMOISTURE
    Excess of moisture.
  • OVERMOIST
    Excessively moist. Bacon.

 

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