humid

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French humide, from Latin humidus, correctly umidus (“moist”), from humere, correctly umere (“to be moist”), akin to ūvēns (“moist”), ūvidus, ūdus (“moist”); all from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ-, *wogʷ- (“wet”). Cognate with Old Norse vǫkr (“moist, damp, wet”), Scots wak (“moist, damp, wetness, moisture”), English weaky (“moist, wet”). More at weaky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɪd/

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Adjective

humid (comparative humider, superlative humidest)

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

   humid earth

   1667 - John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

   Evening cloud, or humid bow.

Synonyms

• damp, moist

Related terms

• humidity

Translations

slightly wet

• Armenian: խոնավ (hy) (xonav)
• Bulgarian: влажен (bg) (vlažen)
• Catalan: humit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濕 (zh), 湿 (zh) (shī)

• Czech: vlhký (cs) m
• Dutch: vochtig (nl), vochtige (nl)
• Esperanto: humida
• Finnish: kostea (fi), humidi
• French: mouillé (fr)
• Friulian: umid
• Georgian: ნესტიანი (nesṭiani), ნოტიო (noṭio), ტენიანი (ṭeniani)
• German: feucht (de), feuchte (de), feuchter (de), feuchten (de), feuchtes (de)
• Greek: υγρός (el) m (ygrós), νοτερός (el) m (noterós)
• Iban: embap
• Ido: humida (io)
• Indonesian: lembap (id)
• Irish: taisíoch

• Italian: umido (it)
• Japanese: 湿気の多い (しっけのおおい, shikke-no ōi), 蒸し暑い (mushiatsui)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: volgons
• Latvian: mitrs, mikls, valgs, valgans
• Malay: lembap
• Maori: haitutu
• Polish: wilgotny (pl) m, wilgotna f, wilgotne n
• Portuguese: úmido (pt), húmido (pt) m
• Romanian: umed (ro) m, umedă f
• Russian: вла́жный (ru) (vlážnyj)
• Spanish: húmedo (es)
• Swedish: fuktig (sv)
• Turkish: nemli (tr), rutubetli (tr)
• Ukrainian: вологий (volohyj)
• Vietnamese: ẩm (vi)
• Welsh: llaith (cy)
• West Frisian: fochtich, damp
• Westrobothnian: devu

Further reading

• humid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• humid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• humid at OneLook Dictionary Search