| Main Entry: | moisture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dampness; liquid |
Synonyms: |
damp, dankness, dew, drizzle, fog, humidity, mist, perspiration, precipitation, rain, sweat, water, wateriness, wet, wetness |
Antonyms: |
dryness |
| Concept: | Moisture. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
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-nouns
moisture; moistness; humidity, humectation; madefaction, dew; serein; marsh; hygrometry, hygrometer.
-verbs
moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench (water)., be moist; not have a dry thread; perspire (exude).
-adjectives
moist, damp; watery; madid, roric; undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral, rorid; roscid; juicy., wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated, like a wet rat., swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy (marshy); irriguous.
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Antonyms: |
dryness |
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| Main Entry: | humidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very damp weather |
Synonyms: |
clamminess, dampness, dankness, dew, dewiness, evaporation, fogginess, heaviness, humectation, humidness, moistness, moisture, mugginess, oppressiveness, sogginess, steam, steaminess, stickiness, sultriness, sweatiness, swelter, thickness, vaporization, wet, wetness |
Antonyms: |
aridity, dryness |
| Main Entry: | mist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | film, vapor |
Synonyms: |
brume, cloud, condensation, dew, drizzle, fog, ground clouds, haze, moisture, rain, smog, soup, spray, steam, visibility zero |
| Main Entry: | spray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine mist |
Synonyms: |
aerosol, atomizer, drizzle, droplets, duster, fog, froth, moisture, spindrift, splash, sprayer, sprinkler, vaporizer |
| Main Entry: | tear/tears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion |
Synonyms: |
blubbering, crying, discharge, distress, drops, grieving, lachryma, lamentation, lamenting, moisture, mourning, pain, regret, sadness, sob, sob act, sobbing, sorrow, teardrop, wailing, water, waterworks, weep, weeping, weeps, whimpering, woe |
| Main Entry: | vapor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fumes, mist |
Synonyms: |
breath, condensation, dampness, dew, effluvium, exhalation, fog, gas, haze, miasma, moisture, reek, smog, smoke, steam |
| Main Entry: | rainfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precipitation |
Synonyms: |
moisture, precip, rain, raindrops, shower |