The air is soft, the soil moist.
Source: tatoeba (18237)
Moist
//mɔɪst//
Synonyms for "moist" (95 found)
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4 entriesRelated terms
15 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
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3 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- njomë adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πλαδαρός adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Arabic
2 entries- بَلّ adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- رَطِب adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Armenian
1 entries- թաց adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Belarusian
1 entries- вільготны adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вла́жен adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- влажен adj (of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal)
Catalan
1 entries- humit adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Chamicuro
1 entries- sawa adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 潮濕 /潮湿 adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- 濕潤 /湿润 adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Czech
1 entries- vlhký adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Danish
1 entries- fugtig adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Dutch
2 entries- nattig adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- vochtig adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Esperanto
1 entries- malseketa adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Finnish
1 entries- kostea adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
French
2 entries- humide adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- moite adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Friulian
1 entries- umid adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Galician
2 entries- húmido adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- lento adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Georgian
1 entries- ნესტიანი adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
German
1 entries- feucht adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Greek
3 entries- νοτερός adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- νοτισμένος adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- υγρός adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Hebrew
1 entries- לַח adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Hindi
3 entries- आबी adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- गीला adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- नम adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyirkos adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Iban
1 entries- embap adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Icelandic
2 entries- rakur adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- tárvotur adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Ido
1 entries- humida adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Indonesian
1 entries- lembap adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Ingrian
2 entries- nahkia adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- nepsiä adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Italian
1 entries- umido adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Japanese
3 entries- しっとり adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- 湿った adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- 濡れた adj (of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal)
Korean
1 entries- 축축한 adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Latin
1 entries- ūvidus adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Latvian
4 entries- mikls adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- mitrs adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- valgans adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- valgs adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Malay
1 entries- lembap adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Middle English
1 entries- moiste adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Middle French
1 entries- moiste adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Māori
4 entries- haumākū adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- hauwai adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- hauwai adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- kōpūtoitoi adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- şêdar adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- fuktig adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- klam adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Occitan
1 entries- umid adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Old French
1 entries- moiste adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صولاق adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Persian
1 entries- نمناک adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- feicht adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Polish
1 entries- wilgotny adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Portuguese
2 entries- húmido adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- úmido adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Romanian
1 entries- umed adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Russian
1 entries- вла́жный adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Slovak
1 entries- vlhký adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Slovene
1 entries- vlážen adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Swedish
1 entries- fuktig adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Thai
1 entries- ชุ่มชื้น adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Turkish
2 entries- nemli adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
- rutubetli adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вологий adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ẩm adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Xiang Chinese
1 entries- 水垮垮 adj (characterized by the presence of moisture; slightly wet)
Sample sentences
51 total sentences available.
Winds from the sea are moist.
Source: tatoeba (22267)
Bring me a moist towel.
Source: tatoeba (35847)
This earth is moist owing to the recent rain.
Source: tatoeba (57685)
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