humid

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromOld Frenchhumide,fromLatinhumidus(“moist”).ViaProto-Indo-European*wegʷ-(“wet”)related toEnglishweaky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈhjuːmɪd/

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• Rhymes:-uːmɪd

Adjective

humid(comparativehumider,superlativehumidest)

1. Containing perceptiblemoisture(usually describing air or atmosphere);damp;moist;somewhat wet orwatery.

   Synonyms:damp,moist;see alsoThesaurus:wet

   humidearth

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

     Evening cloud, orhumidbow.

   • 1816June –1817April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, inFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[…],volume II, London:[…][Macdonald and Son]for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818,→OCLC,pages132–133:

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

Derived terms

• humid heat
• humidly
• humidor
• perhumid

Related terms

• humidity

Translations

slightly wet

• Albanian:i lagësht(sq)
• Arabic:رَطْب(raṭb),رَطِب(raṭib)
• Armenian:խոնավ(hy)(xonav)
• Azerbaijani:rütubətli,nəm(az),nəmli
• Belarusian:вільго́тны(vilʹhótny)
• Bengali:আর্দ্র(bn)(ardro)
• Bulgarian:вла́жен(bg)(vlážen)
• Burmese:စိုထိုင်း(my)(cuihtuing:)
• Catalan:humit(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Ướt／Ướt(zh)(shī)

• Czech:vlhký(cs)
• Danish:fugtig(da)
• Dutch:vochtig(nl)
• Esperanto:humida
• Estonian:niiske
• Finnish:kostea(fi),humidi
• French:mouillé(fr),humide(fr)
• Friulian:umid
• Galician:húmido(gl)
• Georgian:ნესტიანი(nesṭiani),ნოტიო(noṭio),ტენიანი(ṭeniani)
• German:feucht(de)
• Greek:υγρός(el)(ygrós),νοτερός(el)(noterós)
• Haitian Creole:imid
• Hebrew:לַח(he)(lakh)
• Hindi:नम(hi)(nam),गीला(hi)(gīlā),आर्द्र(hi)(ārdra),तर(hi)(tar),आबी(hi)(ābī)
• Hungarian:nyirkos(hu)
• Iban:embap
• Icelandic:rakur(is)
• Ido:humida(io)
• Indonesian:lembap(id)
• Irish:taisíoch
• Italian:umido(it)
• Japanese:Ướt khíのNhiều い(しっけ の おおい, shikke no ōi),Chưng し thử い(ja)(むしあつい, mushiatsui),Ướt っぽい(しめっぽい, shimeppoi),Ướt った(ja)(しめった, shimetta)
• Kazakh:дымқыл(dymqyl),сулы(suly),ылғал(ylğal)
• Khmer:សើម(km)(saəm)
• Korean:습기가많다(seupgiga manta),축축하다(ko)(chukchukhada)
• Kyrgyz:нымдуу(ky)(nımduu),жаан-чачындуу(jaan-cacınduu)
• Lao:ຊຸ່ມ(sum),ຈື້ນ(chư̄n),ປຽກ(pīak)
• Latgalian:volgons
• Latin:ūvidus
• Latvian:mitrs,mikls,valgs,valgans
• Lithuanian:drėgnas
• Macedonian:влажен(vlažen)
• Malay:lembap(ms)
• Maori:haitutu
• Mongolian:чийглэг(mn)(čiigleg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:fuktig

• Persian:مرطوب(phát)(martub),تر(phát)(tar)
• Piedmontese:ùmid
• Plautdietsch:feicht
• Polish:wilgotny(pl)
• Portuguese:úmido(pt),húmido(pt)
• Romanian:umed(ro)
• Russian:вла́жный(ru)(vlážnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:вла̏жан

  Roman:vlȁžan(sh)

• Slovak:vlhký
• Slovene:vlažen(sl)
• Spanish:húmedo(es)
• Swedish:fuktig(sv)
• Tajik:мартуб(martub),тар(tg)(tar)
• Thai:ชื้น(th)(chʉ́ʉn),เปียก(th)(bpìiak)
• Turkish:nemli(tr),rutubetli(tr)
• Turkmen:dymyk,yzgarly
• Tày:ấm
• Ukrainian:воло́гий(volóhyj)
• Urdu:نم(nam),گیلا(gīlā),تر(ur)(tar)
• Uzbek:nam(uz),hoʻl(uz),zax(uz)
• Vietnamese:ẩm(vi)
• Welsh:llaith(cy)
• West Frisian:fochtich,damp
• Yiddish:פֿײַכט(faykht)

Further reading

• “humid”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “humid”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
• “humid”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.