1. Qui a quelque humidité, qui est un peu mouillé. Se dit surtout de la peau rendue humide par la sueur.
Ce serait affreux, n'est-ce pas ? si vos mains traversaient soudain une petite vapeur moite, l'âme de votre père ou de votre aïeul ? (Sartre)
Être tout moite de sueur.
Avoir les mains moites.
2. [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. [from 14th c.]
3. [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. [from 14th c.]
4. [adjective] Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp. [from 14th c.]
5. [adjective] (science) (now historical) Pertaining to one of the four essential qualities formerly believed to be present in all things, characterised by wetness. [from 14th c.]
6. [adjective] (obsolete) Watery, liquid, fluid. [14th-17th c.]
7. [adjective] (medicine) Characterised by the presence of pus, mucus etc. [from 14th c.]
8. [adjective] (colloquial) Sexually lubricated (of the vagina); sexually aroused, turned on (of a woman). [from 20th c.]
9. [adjective] Slightly wet; 'clothes damp with perspiration'; 'a moist breeze'; 'eyes moist with tears'.
