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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He held on savagely, and stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot, moist earth.
Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
It was delightful to rattle along over the moist roads in the early red sunlight that was creeping across the shorn harvest fields.
At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom.
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