moistとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɔɪst/
• 韻: -ɔɪst

形容詞

moist (comparative moister または more moist, superlative moistest または most moist)

1. Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. [from 14th c.]
   • 1937 November 1, “Modernist Miracle”, in Time:

     Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough.

   • 2011 January 7, Dominic Streatfeild, The Guardian:

     "The other car didn't explode," continues Shujaa. "The explosives were a bit moist. They had been stored in a place that was too humid."

2. Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. [from 14th c.]
   • 1974 December 6, “Mitchell and Stans: Not Guilty”, in Time:

     Eyes moist, he hugged one of his attorneys and later said: "I feel like I've been reborn."

3. Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp. [from 14th c.]
   • 2008 September 8, Graham Harvey, The Guardian:

     With its mild, moist climate, Britain is uniquely placed to grow good grass.

4. (sciences, historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterised by wetness. [from 14th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     :

     Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder parts of the chylus […]

5. (obsolete) Watery, liquid, fluid. [14th-17th c.]
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify a page number using |page= または |pageref=)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388:

     Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment.

6. (medicine) Characterised by the presence of pus, mucus etc. [from 14th c.]
7. (colloquial) Sexually lubricated (of the vagina); sexually aroused, turned on (of a woman). [from 20th c.]
   • 2008, Marcia King-Gamble, Meet Phoenix, page 168:

     He slid a finger in me, checking to make sure I was moist and ready for him.

使用する際の注意点

Moist is mostly used for agreeable conditions while damp is mainly used for disagreeable conditions:

• moist cake
• damp clothes

同意語

• (slightly wet): damp, thone/thoan (方言); see also Thesaurus:wet
• (tearful): dewy-eyed, misty, weepy, wet
• (rainy, damp): dank or see Thesaurus:muggy
• (watery, liquid, fluid): liquidlike; see also Thesaurus:fluidic

関連する語

• moisten
• moist media^[1]
• moisture

動詞

moist (三人称単数 現在形 moists, 現在分詞 moisting, 過去形および過去分詞形 moisted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To moisten.

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