Need another word that means the same as “moist”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “moist” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Moist” are: damp, dampish, steamy, humid, muggy, clammy, dank, wet, rainy, drizzly, drizzling, dewy, dripping, soggy, sweaty, sticky, tearful, teary, dewy-eyed, watery, misty
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “moist” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| clammy | (of air or atmosphere) damp and unpleasant. The clammy atmosphere of the cave. |
| damp | Slightly wet. Clothes damp with perspiration. |
| dampish | Slightly wet. |
| dank | Unpleasantly cool and humid. Huge dank caverns. |
| dewy | (of a person’s skin) appearing soft and lustrous. The girls have yet to lose their dewy charm. |
| dewy-eyed | Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity. |
| dripping | Very wet. Dripping wet hair. |
| drizzling | (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops. |
| drizzly | Wet with light rain. A sad drizzly day. |
| humid | Marked by a relatively high level of water vapour in the atmosphere. A hot and humid day. |
| misty | Wet with mist. The misty evening. |
| muggy | (of the weather) unpleasantly warm and humid. It was a hot very muggy evening. |
| rainy | Wet by periods of rain. Rainy days. |
| soggy | Dull and lifeless. The chorus sings powerfully but the interpretation is ultimately soggy. |
| steamy | Producing, filled with, or clouded with steam. Steamy towels. |
| sticky | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive. Felt sticky and chilly at the same time. |
| sweaty | Exuding, soaked in, or inducing sweat. My feet got so hot and sweaty. |
| tearful | Crying or inclined to cry. Tearful eyes. |
| teary | Full of tears; tearful. There were teary eyes all round. |
| watery | Overly diluted; thin and insipid. A watery substance. |
| wet | (of the weather) rainy. Wet sidewalks. |
| absorb | Take up mentally. The work absorbed him and continued to make him happy. |
| absorbent | A substance that soaks up liquid easily. As absorbent as a sponge. |
| aqueous | Similar to or containing or dissolved in water. An aqueous solution of potassium permanganate. |
| awash | Covered or flooded with water, especially seawater or rain. The boat rolled violently her decks awash. |
| damp | Damp air or atmosphere. The damps of the valley. |
| dampness | A slight wetness. The dampness in the air. |
| dank | Unpleasantly damp and cold. Huge dank caverns. |
| drench | Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged. The war drenched the country in blood. |
| drenched | Abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination. Moon drenched meadows. |
| dusty | Covered with, full of, or resembling dust. A hot dusty road. |
| humid | Marked by a relatively high level of water vapour in the atmosphere. Humid air. |
| humidity | A quantity representing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere or in a gas. The humidity should be supplied by regularly spraying the leaves. |
| jungle | A situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness. It s a jungle out there. |
| marshland | Land consisting of marshes. Marshland landscapes. |
| marshy | Soft and watery. A marshy coastline. |
| moisture | Wetness caused by water. The air was constantly heavy with moisture. |
| moisturize | Make (something, especially the skin) less dry. Revitalize your face moisturize your skin. |
| muddy | Cause to become muddy. Muddy boots. |
| rain | Rain falls. He fell under the rain of blows. |
| saturate | Saturated with moisture. The soil is saturated. |
| saturated | Denoting fats containing a high proportion of fatty acid molecules without double bonds considered to be less healthy in the diet than unsaturated fats. A saturated barium hydroxide solution. |
| soak | Washing something by allowing it to soak. I m looking forward to a long soak in the bath. |
| soaked | Extremely wet; saturated. Rain soaked streets. |
| sodden | Wet through and through; thoroughly wet. His clothes were sodden. |
| sop | Wet thoroughly; soak. He used some bread to sop up the sauce. |
| splashing | The act of splashing a liquid substance on a surface. |
| sponge | Wipe with a sponge so as to clean or moisten. She repainted the walls white then sponged them in turquoise green and lilac. |
| tropics | The part of the Earth’s surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate. |
| vapor | The process of becoming a vapor. |
| wet | Cause to become wet. A wet windy evening. |
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