HUMID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humid mean? 

• HUMID (adjective)
  The adjective HUMID has 1 sense:

1. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor

  Familiarity information: HUMID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor

Context example:

humid weather

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

humidity; humidness (wetness in the atmosphere)

 Context examples 

The researchers noted that "the positive direction of the effects indicate that wider noses are more common in warm-humid climates, while narrower noses are more common in cold-dry climates."

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Device problems that result from storing the device in an uncontrolled or improper environment (e.g., moisture sensitive devices stored in a humid environment).

(Device Storage Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

The air was sticky and humid, and the rain-squalls were unrefreshing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They grow best in warm, damp and humid conditions.

(Molds, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The conditions would have been something similar to the arid western United States today, although there would have been trees and smaller plants near streams and rivers, and forests during humid times.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

These tiny particles act by forming cloud droplets after all the larger particles in a warm and humid environment have already been used to form droplets.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

Vaterite is not very stable in the Earth’s humid atmosphere as it often reverts to more common forms of calcium carbonate, such as calcite.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

Perfect beauty is a strong expression; but I do not retrace or qualify it: as sweet features as ever the temperate clime of Albion moulded; as pure hues of rose and lily as ever her humid gales and vapoury skies generated and screened, justified, in this instance, the term.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)