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dankdank /dæŋk/ adjective   dankOrigin: 1300-1400 Probably from a Scandinavian language - I'm not surprised he's miserable, living in that dank old house.
- The air in the room was heavy and dank, and I couldn't sleep.
- The bag had been sitting in a dank tent for three days and smelled like an old laundry hamper.
- But the trees were tall firs, dripping wet with dank bracken underneath among the black trunks.
- During the daytime, the temperature would reach 106 degrees; at night the men shivered in their dank drawers.
- From seaside gazebos to dank concrete bunkers, the production design is brilliant.
- It is a pure sporting moment, a coach and his team huddled together on a dank night.
- Marie said, following Helen along the hallway with its familiar dank smell of musty horsehair and cedar and mothballs.
- The sound system crackles, the projector is faulty, the auditorium is dank and all but empty.
air/weather► damp slightly wet, especially in a cold unpleasant way: · It was a cold damp morning. ► humid hot and damp in an unpleasant way: · Florida can be very humid in the summer. ► muggy warm and damp and making you feel uncomfortable: · This muggy weather gives me a headache. ► dank dank air is cold and damp and smells unpleasant – used especially about the air inside a room: · The dank air smelled of stale sweat. when the air feels wet► humid humid air or weather is hot and wet in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable: · Summers in Tokyo are hot and humid.· Her clothes were sticking to her, but the humid air didn't seem to bother Ralph.· The entire island is covered by thick humid jungle. ► damp: damp air or weather is slightly wet in an unpleasant way, and makes you feel cold: · It's cold and damp outside - make sure you wear a warm coat.· At first I hated the damp weather in Britain. ► muggy: muggy weather is very warm and wet, and there is no wind, so that you feel very uncomfortable: · When it's hot and muggy, no one feels like working.· It was a warm muggy afternoon, and it looked like it would rain. ► sticky very hot and wet, making you feel uncomfortable and dirty: · We left Rome on a hot sticky day in August.· Something about the sticky humid weather made people feel a little angry. ► dank air that is dank , especially the air in an enclosed room or space, is unpleasantly wet and cold and smells bad: · The air in the room was heavy and dank, and I couldn't sleep.· I'm not surprised he's miserable, living in that dank old house.· The bag had been sitting in a dank tent for three days and smelled like an old laundry hamper. unpleasantly wet and cold:  a dank prison cell► see thesaurus at damp—dankness noun [uncountable] |