humid

Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɪd/

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• Rhymes: -uːmɪd

humid (comparative humider or more humid, superlative humidest or most humid)

1. Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.

   Synonyms: damp, moist; see also Thesaurus:wet

   humid earth

   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Evening cloud, or humid bow.

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 132–133:

     Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.

• humidity

• “humid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “humid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “humid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.