dampish

adjective more dampish · most dampish

1. obsolete Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky. All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...].
2. Moderately damp or moist. Miles of long, dark-brown, dampish-looking galleries stretch away to the right and left, and though devoid of the picturesque festoons of fungi which decorate the London Dock vaults, exhibit a sufficient degree of mouldiness to give them an air of respectable antiquity.