Humid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Humid \Hu"mid\ (h[=u]"m[i^]d), a. [L. humidus, umidus, fr.
     humere, umere, to be moist; akin to uvidus moist, Gr.
     "ygro`s, Skr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and Icel. v["o]kr moist,
     and perh. to E. ox: cf. F. humide.]
     Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or
     atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth;


     consisting of water or vapor.
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           Evening cloud, or humid bow.             --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  humid
       adj : containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor;
             "humid air"; "humid weather"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "humid":
     boggy, clammy, close, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, marshy,
     moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, rainy, roric, roriferous, sodden,
     soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry,
     swampy, sweltering, tacky, undried, wet, wettish