Moist

/mɔɪst/ · adjective

Meaning

Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp..

Definitions by Sense

1. Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
2. Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
3. Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
4. (informal) Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
5. Characterized by the presence of some fluid such as mucus, pus, etc.
6. Of sounds of internal organs (especially as heard through a stethoscope): characterized by the sound of air bubbling through a fluid.
7. (sciences, historical) 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.
8. Fluid, liquid, watery.

Example Sentences

Will theſe moyſt Trees, That haue out-liu'd the Eagle, page thy heeles And skip when thou point'ſt out?

And [the Angel of the Lord] made the mids of the fornace, as it had bene a moiſt whiſtling wind, ſo that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

[Y]et the North-ſide [of the pyramids of Giza] moſt worne, by reaſon of the humiditie of the Northerne wind, which here is the moiſteſt.

[W]e ſee Swines and Pigs Fleſh is the Moiſteſt of Fleſhes.

Whilſt thee the ſhores, and ſounding Seas Waſh far away, where ere thy bones are hurld, Whether beyond the ſtormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Viſit'ſt the bottom of the monſtrous world; Or whether thou to our moiſt vows deny'd, Sleep'ſt by the fable of Bellerus old, […]

[T]he Winds Blow moiſt and keen, ſhattering the graceful locks Of theſe fair ſpreading Trees; […]

After every watering, which need not be above twice or thrice in every Summer, ſo they may be thoroughly wet, be ſure to make up the Hills, wherein holes for the water had been made, with ſome parings, and with the weeds, and cooleſt and moiſteſt Materials that can be got.

Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes,[…]: but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, […]

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• moister
• more moist
• moistest
• most moist
• moists
• moisting
• moisted

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