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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. damp

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

   Antonyms:
   urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

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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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

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1. dampadjective

   Synonyms:
   moist, wet, humid, dank

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "damp":

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

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1. Terry Torrison:

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

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. Pete Cunningham:

   If I want to buy a new house then I can go around and I can check to see whether there is damp patches around or whether the current owners have painted over and tried to hide any issues with leaks or damp patches, so that's another great example, also silly things like I'm going into the bakers and getting the freshest bread, you can point the phone up and identify where the freshest bread is. Or I let my dog out in the evening and it's pitch black, so now I can find my dog without having to chase around and rummage in bushes.

5. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him