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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very damp, referring to weather |
| Synonyms: | boiling, clammy, close, dank, irriguous, moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, sodden, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, watery, wet |
| Antonyms: | arid, dry |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juicy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moist |
| Synonyms: | dank, dewy, dripping, humid, liquid, luscious, lush, mellow, oily, oozy, pulpy, sappy, saturated, sauced, slippery, slushy, soaked, sodden, succulent, syrupy, viscid, watery, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | moist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wet, wettish |
| Synonyms: | clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, dripping, drippy, drizzly, humid, irriguous, muggy, not dry, oozy, rainy, soggy, teary, watery |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinking, foul |
| Synonyms: | bad, dank, disagreeable, disgusting, evil-smelling, feculent, fetid, funky*, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross*, high, humid, loathsome, mephitic, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, off, offensive, olid, pungent, putrescent, putrid, rancid, reeking, repulsive, revolting, smelly, sour, stale, strong, strong-smelling, tainted, turned |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, perfumed, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damp or soaking |
| Synonyms: | clammy, dank, dripping, heavy, humid, moist, mucky, muggy, mushy, pasty, pulpy, saturated, soaked, sodden, soft, sopping, spongy, sticky, sultry, waterlogged |
| Antonyms: | dehydrated, dry |
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | close, oppressive |
| Synonyms: | airless, breathless, confined, fetid, heavy, humid, muggy, stagnant, stale, stifling, suffocating, sultry, thick, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | airy, breezy, open, ventilated |
| Main Entry: | sweltering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | airless, baking, broiling, burning, close, fiery, humid, oppressive, perspiring, scorching, sizzling, stewing, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltry, torrid |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing |
| Main Entry: | watery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liquid, diluted |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, anemic, aqueous, bloodless, colorless, damp, dilute, doused, flavorless, fluid, humid, insipid, marshy, moist, pale, runny, serous, sodden, soggy, tasteless, thin, washed, water-logged, watered-down, waterlike, weak, wet |
| Antonyms: | concentrated, dehydrated, dry, solid |
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