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damp

adjective

her hair was still damp from the shower:

moist, moistened, wettish, dampened, dampish;

humid, steamy, muggy, clammy, sweaty, sticky, dank, moisture-laden, wet, wetted, rainy, drizzly, showery, misty, foggy, vaporous, dewy;

British, dialect claggy.

▷antonyms dry.

noun

you could feel the damp in the air:

moisture, dampness, humidity, wetness, wet, water, liquid, condensation, steam, vapour, clamminess, mugginess, dankness, wateriness;

rain, raininess, dew, drizzle, precipitation, spray;

perspiration, sweat.

▷antonyms dryness.

verb

gradually sweat damped the edges of his hair:

dampen, moisten, wet, dew, water, irrigate, humidify;

literary bedew;

rare sparge, humify, humect.

▷antonyms dry; drench.

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hygro- related prefix, as in hygrometer, hygroscopic hygrophobia fear of damp

word toolkit	damp
See wet.

damp Oxford Dictionary of English