moister

Adjective

moist (comparative moister or more moist, superlative moistest or most moist)

1. Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
   • Will theſe moyſt Trees, / That haue out-liu'd the Eagle, page thy heeles / And skip when thou point'ſt out?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   moisty, bewatered, damp, drenched, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid, overwatered

   Antonyms:

   unmoist, anhydrous, arid, bone dry, droughty, dry, dry as a bone, exsuccous, parched, sare

2. Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
   • [H]aue you not a moiſt eie, a dry hand, a yelow cheeke, a white beard, a decreaſing leg, an increaſing belly? […] and will you yet call your ſelfe yong? fie, fie, fie, ſir Iohn.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...

   Synonyms:

   dewy-eyed, misty, teary, weepy, wet, cryey, crysome, lachrymate, lachrymose, larmoyant

3. Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
   • Ye Swains, invoke the Pow'rs who rule the Sky, / For a moiſt Summer, and a Winter dry: / For Winter drout rewards the Peaſant's Pain, / And broods indulgent on the bury'd Grain.1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 53, lines...

   Synonyms:

   dank, close, heavy, muggy, oppressive, steamy, sticky, sultry, sweltering, tropic

4. (informal) Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
   • He slid a finger in me, checking to make sure I was moist and ready for him.2008, Marcia King-Gamble, chapter 14, in Meet Phoenix (Kimani Romance), New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 168

   Synonyms:

   wet

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.

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