HUMID
What does "HUMID" mean?
Marked by a high amount of water vapour in the air; damp and muggy.
Meanings
- Containing or characterized by a noticeable amount of moisture in the air. The greenhouse stayed warm and humid even in winter.
Did you know?
- Air at 100% relative humidity is not 'full of water' in a fixed sense - warm air at 100% can hold many times more vapour than cold air at 100%, because warmth raises the ceiling.
Word origin
From Latin 'humidus' (moist), from 'humere' (to be wet); entered English via French in the late 1400s.
Remember it
HUMID = HUM + ID: on a muggy day the air seems to HUM, ID-entifying itself as wet.
A little poem
The cold glass weeping
before the iced tea is poured -
August breathes on it.
haiku
Wordplay
- It's not the heat that gets you - it's the humidity. Mostly it's both, ganging up.
What it teaches
It is rarely the obvious force that wears you down, but the unseen weight clinging to the air around it.
Quick facts
What does HUMID mean?
Marked by a high amount of water vapour in the air; damp and muggy.
Is HUMID a valid word?
Yes — HUMID is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HUMID?
HUMID has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HUMID come from?
From Latin 'humidus' (moist), from 'humere' (to be wet); entered English via French in the late 1400s.
What can HUMID teach us?
It is rarely the obvious force that wears you down, but the unseen weight clinging to the air around it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.