moist
/mɔɪst/ adjective B2- Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
- Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
- Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
- Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
- Characterized by the presence of some fluid such as mucus, pus, etc.
- Of sounds of internal organs (especially as heard through a stethoscope): characterized by the sound of air bubbling through a fluid.
- Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterized by wetness; also, having a significant amount of this quality.
Comparative moister · Superlative moistest
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Villefort fell back on his chair, passed his hand over his brow, moist with perspiration, and, for the third time, read the letter.
“Sir,” cried Morrel, seizing the moist hand of the paralytic, “they ask me who I am, and what right I have to be here.
Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
He held on savagely, and stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
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