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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
humid
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
damp/humid
▪ Damp air causes condensation.
humid heat (=when the weather is hot and damp)
▪ the humid heat of a tropical forest
humid (=with hot and wet air)
▪ Tropical vegetation flourishes in this humid climate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
▪ Going out on to Des Voeux, she breathed in the hot, humid air.
▪ Wyatt breathed in the hot humid air.
▪ The base can also be used to hold capillary matting or moist grit for plants that require humid air.
▪ Others squat on the branches of forest trees with their roots dangling beneath them in the humid air.
▪ As they left the building, waves of moist humid air wrapped around her skin.
atmosphere
▪ Drinks were essential in the humid atmosphere.
▪ Endeavour to maintain a humid atmosphere.
▪ Stand plants on saucers filled with pebbles which you can keep wet, to maintain a more humid atmosphere around them.
climate
▪ This could represent a humid climate during the glacial-interglacial transition between stages 8 and 7 of the marine 18 O record.
▪ In humid climates, triticale seed had the annoying propensity of sprouting prematurely; often, while still on the parent.
▪ A very humid climate fostering tropical vegetation in a swampy and lagoonal surrounding is characteristic of this period.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her clothes were sticking to her, but the humid air didn't seem to bother Ralph.
▪ It was a hot, humid day, and the only sound was the buzzing of insects.
▪ Summers in Tokyo are hot and humid.
▪ The entire island is covered by thick humid jungle.
▪ The forecast is for another hot and humid afternoon today.
▪ Tokyo is very humid in summer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a number of years after 1865, a long humid cycle brought uninterrupted above-average rainfall to the plains.
▪ In other parts of the country, coaches have little choice because the weather is hot and humid everywhere.
▪ Overall, arid areas have increased by around 54 million hectares, and humid areas reduced by 26 million hectares.
▪ Temperatures were in the high seventies and with the absence of any wind it felt sticky and humid.
▪ The air was hot and still and humid.
▪ The climate through much of the year would be as hot and humid as today's Miami.
▪ We drove through the humid night and things flew into the beam of the headlights.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humid

Humid \Hu"mid\ (h[=u]"m[i^]d), a. [L. humidus, umidus, fr. humere, umere, to be moist; akin to uvidus moist, Gr. "ygro`s, Skr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and Icel. v["o]kr moist, and perh. to E. ox: cf. F. humide.] Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

Evening cloud, or humid bow.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
humid

early 15c., from Old French humide or directly from Latin humidus "moist, wet," variant (probably by influence of humus "earth") of umidus, from umere "be moist," from PIE *wegw- "wet."

Wiktionary
humid

a. Containing sensible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

WordNet
humid

adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather"

Wikipedia
Humid
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Usage examples of "humid".

The huge cloud of humid air that hung perpetually above the Astel Marshes lapped against the eastern slopes of the Mountains of Zemoch, unloosing phenomenal snowfalls that buried the forests and clogged the passes.

It was overcast, the sky a mottled grey and the cloud hanging low in a dense blanket, though it was warm, atouch humid.

Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.

Alice slowly raised herself off Connie, with eyes still humid with lust and her cunt bedewed with love-juice.

Beau Brachman had in fact been imagining a coupling, too: blind, humid, and hot, hot enough to turn the Androgyne inside out, and make him all male.

I now passed my hands round and in front of her, grabbing her beautiful bubbies and squeezing them lingeringly, while I moved up close behind her so that the tip of my aching cock just brushed the base of her behind and suggestively prodded the warm, slightly humid furrow that divided that magnificent posterior.

And even in humid England it is grown more or less freely on dry, calcareous soils.

And he has the same capacity for constant incredible sweating that always made Marlon Bain look to Hal, both on-court and off-, like a toad hunched moist and unblinking in humid shade.

We always love to touch a cat, but only the insensitive can uniformly welcome the frantic and humid nuzzlings and pawings of a dusty and perhaps not inodorous canine which leaps and fusses and writhes about in awkward feverishness for no particular reason save that blind nerve-centres have been spurred by certain meaningless stimuli.

Its gravity is much higher than the Kaldorni homeworld, while the climate is uncomfortably hot and humid for the people accustomed to the subarctic climate of Beystohn.

The basement where they worked on their swordplay was damp and unventilated, so it soon became close and humid.

There was humid rainforest, yes, but there was also lots of brush and meadow in the valleys.

In response to a muted mandibular click, a chronometer appeared briefly before him in the hot, humid air of the room.

Great sea mammal sounds began to issue from them both: a groaning against the heavy pressure of the ocean, a squirty opening of mollusk shells, a slapping of wet flippers, an exhalation of salty and humid vapors, a blubberous explosion of moby dick.

Dylan or because of his indiscretions with morphine seemed to dissolve immediately, and from that moment on Kat and Eric were friends, bound by that hot, humid August afternoon when they had each shared a dark and brooding secret.