V. moisten, wet,
humect,
humectate,
sponge, damp,
bedew,
imbue,
imbrue,
infiltrate,
saturate,
soak,
drench, be moist, not have a dry thread,
perspire Adj. moist, damp,
watery,
madid,
roric, undried,
humid,
sultry, wet,
dank, luggy,
dewy, roral|, rorid|,
roscid,
juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin,
saturated,
swashy,
soggy,
dabbled,
reeking,
dripping,
soaking, soft,
sodden,
sloppy,
muddy,
swampy,
irriguous Marsh Roget’s Thesaurus §345 N. marsh,
swamp,
morass,
marish,
moss,
fen,
bog,
quagmire,
slough,
sump, wash, mud,
squash,
slush, baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei
Adj. marsh,
marshy,
swampy,
boggy,
plashy,
poachy,
quaggy, soft,
muddy,
sloppy,
squashy,
paludal,
moorish,
moory,
fenny N. semiliquidity,
stickiness,
viscidity,
viscosity,
gummosity,
glutinosity,
mucosity,
spissitude,
crassitude,
lentor,
adhesiveness,
inspissation,
incrassation,
thickening,
jelly,
mucilage,
gelatin,
gluten,
carlock, fish glue,
ichthyocol, ichthycolla,
isinglass,
mucus,
phlegm, goo,
pituite, lava,
glair, starch,
gluten,
albumen, milk,
cream, protein|,
treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327, wax,
beeswax,
emulsion,
soup,
squash, mud,
slush,
slime,
ooze, moisture, marsh
Adj. semifluid,
semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen,
milky,
muddy,
lacteal,
lactean,
lacteous,
lactescent,
lactiferous,
emulsive,
curdled, thick,
succulent,
uliginous,
gelatinous,
albuminous,
mucilaginous,
glutinous, glutenous,
gelatin,
mastic,
amylaceous,
ropy,
clammy,
clotted,
viscid,
viscous,
sticky,
tacky, gooey,
slab,
slabby, lentous|,
pituitous,
mucid,
muculent, mucous,
gummy N. dimness, darkness, paleness &c. # (light color) 429, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade,
glimmer, gliming,
nebulosity, cloud,
eclipse,
aurora,
dusk,
twilight, shades of evening,
crepuscule, cockshut time|, break of day,
daybreak,
dawn,
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade,
moonshine,
starlight, owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight, firelight, farthing candle
V. be dim, grow dim,
flicker,
twinkle,
glimmer,
loom, lower,
fade, pale, pale its ineffectual fire, render dim,
dim,
bedim, obscure,
darken, tone down
Adj. dim, dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421,
faint, shadowed forth,
glassy,
cloudy,
misty,
blear, muggy|,
fuliginous,
nebulous,
nebular, obnubilated, overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty,
looming, pale, confused
V. be opaque, obstruct the passage of light,
obfuscate, offuscate|
Adj. opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous,
dim,
turbid, thick,
muddy, opacous|,
obfuscated,
fuliginous, cloud,
hazy,
misty,
foggy,
vaporous,
nubiferous, muggy|| (turbidity) 426a,
smoky,
fumid,
murky,
dirty N. achromatism,
decoloration,
discoloration,
pallor,
pallidness,
pallidity, paleness,
etiolation, neutral tint,
monochrome, black and white
V. lose color,
fade, fly, go, become colorless, turn pale, pale, deprive of color,
decolorize,
bleach,
tarnish,
achromatize,
blanch,
etiolate, wash out, tone down
Adj. uncolored &c. (see color ), colorless,
achromatic,
aplanatic,
etiolate,
etiolated,
hueless, pale,
pallid, palefaced,
tallow-faced,
faint, dull, cold,
muddy,
leaden,
dun,
wan,
sallow, dead,
dingy,
ashy,
ashen,
ghastly,
cadaverous,
glassy,
lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair,
blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse
N. unintelligibility,
incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity,
inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity,
ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty,
perplexity,
spinosity, obscurum per obscurius,
mystification,
latency,
transcendentalism,
paradox,
oxymoron,
riddle,
enigma,
puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book,
steganography,
freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high dutch, greek, hebrew,
jargon V. be unintelligible, require explanation, have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension, render unintelligible,
conceal,
darken,
confuse,
perplex, not understand, lose, lose the clue, miss, not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up, not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of, be at sea, wonder, see through a glass darkly, not understand one another, play at cross purposes
Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable,
undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable,
unfathomable,
incognizable,
inexplicable,
inscrutable,
inapprehensible,
incomprehensible,
insolvable, insoluble,
impenetrable,
illegible, as greek to one, unexplained,
paradoxical,
enigmatic,
enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533,
indecipherable, obscure, dark,
muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist,
dim,
nebulous, shrouded in mystery,
opaque, dense,
undiscernible,
misty, hidden,
latent, indefinite,
garbled,
perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose,
ambiguous,
mysterious,
mystic,
mystical,
acroamatic,
acroamatical,
metempirical,
transcendental,
occult,
recondite,
abstruse,
crabbed, inconceivable,
inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable, unpredictable,
unforeseeable Phr. it's greek to me
