humid

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɪd/

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• Rhymes: -uːmɪd

Adjective

humid (comparative humider, superlative humidest)

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.

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: 濕 / 湿 (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: 湿気の多い (しっけのおおい, shikke no ōi), 蒸し暑い (ja) (むしあつい, mushiatsui), 湿っぽい (しめっぽい, shimeppoi), 湿った (ja) (しめった, shimetta)
• Kazakh: дымқыл (dymqyl), сулы (suly), ылғал (ylğal)
• Khmer: សើម (km) (saəm)
• Korean: 습기가 많다 (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 (fa) (martub), تر (fa) (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”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “humid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “humid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.