moisture

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Dampness

Nouns

1. moisture, moistness, humidity, dampness, wet[ness], dankness, clamminess; hygrometry. See water.

2. dew, fog, mist. See cloudiness, vapor.

3. wetlands, marsh[land], swamp[land], everglade, chott, pocosin, glade, salina, salt marsh, alluvial or coastal plain, delta; morass, moss, fen, [peat] bog; mire, quag[mire], quicksand; slough; sump, swale; wallow, wash, bottoms, mud, slush.

Verbs — moisten, wet, sponge, sprinkle, damp[en], bedew, saturate, soak, drench, water; soak [up].

Adjectives — moist, damp, watery, humid, wet, dank, clammy, muggy, dewy, juicy, wringing wet, wet through, wet to the skin, saturated; soggy, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, marshy, paludal.

Quotations — Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini (Robert Benchley), What would the world be once bereft of wet and wildness? (Gerard Manley Hopkins).

Antonyms, see dryness.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. precipitation, mist, drizzle, condensation, dampness, damp; see also fog 1 , rain 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

dampness, wetness, humidity, mugginess, dew, steam, mist, fog, drizzle, rain, liquid.

ANT.: dryness, aridity