Usually means: Slightly wet; damp or humid.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. moist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. moist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. moist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. moist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. moist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Moist, moist: Wordnik
  7. moist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Moist, moist: Wiktionary
  9. moist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. moist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. moist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. moist: Dictionary.com
  13. moist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. moist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Moist (Canadian band), Moist (band), Moist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Moist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. moist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. moist: Rhymezone
  19. moist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. moist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. moist: Free Dictionary
  22. moist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. moist: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. moist: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Moist (band), moist: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOIST: Acronym Finder
  2. moist: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MOIST: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. moist, moist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.O.I.S.T, Moist, moist [cunt flaps], the moist: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See moistly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
adjective:  Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.
adjective:  Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.
adjective:  (informal) Of the vagina: sexually lubricated due to sexual arousal; of a woman: sexually aroused, turned on.
adjective:  (medicine)
adjective:  Characterized by the presence of some fluid such as mucus, pus, etc.
adjective:  Of sounds of internal organs (especially as heard through a stethoscope): characterized by the sound of air bubbling through a fluid.
adjective:  (sciences, historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterized by wetness; also, having a significant amount of this quality.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Fluid, liquid, watery.
adjective:  (also poetic) Bringing moisture or rain.
noun:  (obsolete except US, regional) Moistness; also, moisture.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (obsolete except British, regional and US) To make (something) moist or wet; to moisten.
verb:  (obsolete, figuratively) To inspire, to refresh (someone); also, to soften (one's heart).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (US) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
verb:  (obsolete) To have an effect of moistening or wetting.
noun:  A follower of the religion of Moism.
noun:  A surname.

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