 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
humid
adjective: containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor;
"humid air"; "humid weather"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Humid \Hu"mid\ (h[=u]"m[i^]d), adjective [L. humidus, umidus, fr.
humere, umere, to be moist; akin to uvidus moist, Gr.
"ygro's, Skr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and Icel. v["o]kr moist,
and perh. to E. ox: cf. F. humide.]
Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or
atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth;
consisting of water or vapor.
Evening cloud, or humid bow. --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "humid":
boggy, clammy, close, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, marshy,
moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, rainy, roric, roriferous, sodden,
soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry,
swampy, sweltering, tacky, undried, wet, wettish
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