damply

1. 1.

   in a damp manner

   “a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye”

   Synonymsmoistly

Questions about damply

What does damply mean?

damply means "in a damp manner".

How many syllables are in damply?

damply has 2 syllables: dam-ply. The stress falls on "dam".

What is another word for damply?

Close synonyms include moistly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is damply a common word?

damply is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.