Synonyms for damp
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1. damp

   Synonyms:
   chill, deter, dissuade, drive away, repel, warn

   Antonyms:
   allure, attract, cajole, captivate, coax, decoy, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt, win

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. damp

   Synonyms:
   cool, blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist, discourage, discountenance, repress

   Antonyms:
   urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. damp, dampness, moistnessadjective

   a slight wetness

   Synonyms:
   dampness, moistness

   Antonyms:
   dry

2. damp, dampish, moistverb

   slightly wet

   "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

   Synonyms:
   dampish, moist

   Antonyms:
   dry

3. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb

   deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

   Synonyms:
   muffle, wash, stifle, mute, pall, numb, moderate, moisten, weaken, benumb, repress, break, soften, tone down, dull, smother, blunt, deaden, dampen, tame, strangle

   Antonyms:
   dry

4. dampverb

   restrain or discourage

   "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

   Synonyms:
   tone down, mute, weaken, dull, deaden, break, dampen, muffle, soften

   Antonyms:
   dry

5. dampen, deaden, dampverb

   make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

   "muffle the message"

   Synonyms:
   stifle, mute, weaken, dull, wash, deaden, muffle, blunt, dampen, girdle, tone down, break, moisten, soften

   Antonyms:
   dry

6. dampen, damp, soften, weaken, breakverb

   lessen in force or effect

   "soften a shock"; "break a fall"

   Synonyms:
   crack, step down, break away, give way, soften, mince, reveal, give out, unwrap, conk out, part, wash, counteract, collapse, die, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, cushion, muffle, split, give away, smash, dull, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, pause, divulge, buffer, let on, get around, interrupt, wear out, cave in, deaden, break-dance, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, subvert, better, burst, go bad, break off, tone down, disclose, bust, erupt, moisten, relent, recrudesce, undermine, stifle, break dance, go against, dampen, fall in, bump, let out, ruin, fall apart, kick downstairs, de-escalate, break down, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, mute, expose, break, moderate, discontinue, intermit, countermine, yield, wear, sabotage

   Antonyms:
   dry

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Dictionary of English Synonymes(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dampnoun

   Synonyms:
   moisture, vapor, fog, dampness

2. dampadjective

   Synonyms:
   moist, humid, dank, wet

3. dampverb

   Synonyms:
   moisten, dampen

4. dampverb

   Synonyms:
   check, repress, restrain, moderate, allay, abate

5. dampverb

   Synonyms:
   chill, deaden, depress, deject

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. dampadjective

   Synonyms:
   moist, wet, humid, dank

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1. List of paraphrases for "damp":

   wet, humid, moist, moisture, wetland, wet-type, humidity

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1. Van Dam:

   This is a rare occurrence that took place because cool, damp air became trapped in the lower levels of the canyon, it was literally stuck underneath a warm layer of air just above. In the meteorological world, this is referred to as an inversion when the temperature actually warms with height (as opposed to it cooling with a rise in altitude).

2. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

3. Devesh Mamtani:

   The sanctions on Iran have turned out to be a damp squib for the time being with the Trump administration granting exemptions, the exemptions have even surprised Saudi Arabia as oil supplies from Iran are likely to spike in the coming days.

4. Terry Torrison:

   The ECB and OPEC meetings could prove to be a damp squib, which may result in markets drifting a bit lower.

5. Joseph Addison:

   Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.