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danish blue |
danish capital |
danish krone |
danish monetary unit |
danish pastry |
dank
| dankness
| danmark
| dano-norwegian
| danse du ventre
| danse macabre
dank
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dank has 1 sense
- dank(s = adj.all) clammy - unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" Derived form noun dankness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dank, adj. disagreeably damp and cold.
Derivative
dankly adv. dankness n.
Etymology
ME prob. f. Scand.: cf. Sw. dank marshy spot
THESAURUS
dank
boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy, rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettishROGET THESAURUS
dank
Moisture
N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, 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.
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