humid
Use Humid in a sentence
mɪd adjective
containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
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humid (ˈhjuːmɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| moist; damp: a humid day | |
| [C16: from Latin ūmidus, from ūmēre to be wet; see | |
| 'humidly | |
| —adv | |
| 'humidness | |
| —n | |
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Humid
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
humid
1412 (implied in humidity), from O.Fr. humide, from L. humidus "moist, wet," var. (by infl. of humus "earth") of umidus, from umere "be moist."
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Example sentences
The beads form faster if the weather is humid or if the pie is chilled.
Often a hurricane leaves behind stiflingly hot, humid weather that puts tempers on edge.
Cold-weather noses may function differently from those that evolved in hot and humid climates.
Avoid exercise or strenuous physical activity outside during hot or humid weather.
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