Dampish

Quick meaning: Dampish is an adjective meaning Moderately damp or moist.

Meaning

Moderately damp or moist.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.

Example Sentences

Her hand was warm, lying there in his, dampish, fingers interlaced with his.

All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...].

I was four but I turned four hundred maybe, Encountering the ancient dampish feel Of a clay floor. Maybe four thousand even.

I remember very clearly the feeling of sitting there reading it; the dampish clay of the trench bottom underneath me, the constant shifting of my legs out of the way as men hurried stopping down the trench, the crack-crack-crack of bullets a foot or two overhead.

Synonyms for dampish

Depending on context, synonyms include wet, damp, moist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moist, wet, vaporous, smudgy, muggy, smoky.

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