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MOYST/mɔɪst/

Moist means slightly wet; damp: keep the soil moist; a moist climate. Damp is the close twin; wet is wetter; humid is air. Not waterlogged. Mix-up: most is the superlative (already in the dictionary); mist is thin fog (later in this set). Do not write moist for soaking rain.

Meaning

Slightly wet; damp.

Examples

• “Keep the soil moist, not waterlogged, the biology practical said.”
• “A moist onshore wind featured in the climate graph, which is the air sense.”

Good to know

moist soil / air / climate. Close: damp. Wetter: wet. Trap: most / mist. Biology and geography. Slightly wet, not soaked or “almost all”.

Near in meaning

damp

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