dank
unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
Slang. (of marijuana) excellent; high quality: There was plenty of booze and dank weed at the party.
Slang. (of an internet meme) passé or clichéd; out of touch; having missed the cultural Zeitgeist.
Slang. high-quality marijuana: We were just chilling out and smoking dank together.
Origin of dank
1Other words for dank
Other words from dank
- dankly, adverb
- dankness, noun
Words Nearby dank
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use dank in a sentence
The dwarves abandoned the mines, and the dank, dark place came to be known as Moria.
An Extremely Detailed Breakdown of the Rings of Power Trailer | Eliana Dockterman | July 14, 2022 | TimeMultiple reports published this week showed San Diego’s sunshine and dank waves are not enough to keep up with soaring housing and energy prices.
Simmering with anger and frustration, Marie is packed off to the dank, depressing convent, a place of famine, starvation and nuns who are not altogether welcoming.
Why Nun Stories Are About to Become Your Next Pop-Culture Obsession | Stephanie Zacharek | September 2, 2021 | TimeWoe betide anyone working out next to me, sharing my dank microclimate.
A Self-Professed Sweater Explores the Science Behind Stink | klindsey | July 28, 2021 | Outside OnlineNeither do “dampish,” “dank” or “wettish,” which are the other alternatives offered by Merriam-Webster.
Hate the word ‘moist’? Get over it — the alternatives are worse. | Emily Heil | January 19, 2021 | Washington Post
She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.
Escaping Assad’s Rape Prisons: A Survivor Tells Her Story | Jamie Dettmer | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was dark, dank, the walls charcoal-colored, the feeling of a cave.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple | Michael Luongo | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBodies in mortuaries, bodies in ponds, bodies under houses, and in dank boarding houses.
Death Became Her: Molly Lefebure’s Wartime Years of Murder and Suicide | Tim Teeman | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNext thing he knows, the rebel is waking up in a dank cave centuries later.
‘Sleepy Hollow’ Is TV’s Craziest, Most Over-the-Top New Show ... And You Should Watch It | Amy Zimmerman | October 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“It was dark and dank and the children were rarely, if ever, taken outside,” Wright notes.
15 Scientology Revelations From Lawrence Wright’s ‘Going Clear’ | The Daily Beast | January 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe sank back on the dank floor of the cave and buried her face in her dirt-stained hands.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee HopeThe dank vapours of Covent Garden are sweet in the nostrils of many a cockney reveller.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanHe charged up the canyon, fumbling in his parka for more shells, and crashed through dank high brush into a shadowy clearing.
Restricted Tool | Malcolm B. MorehartBarnacles had fastened upon the hull, and long tresses of green, dank seaweed hung trailing from the iron paddle-wheels.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.His face, which bore traces of more than common beauty, was now white and pinched; his hair hung dank about his forehead.
British Dictionary definitions for dank
/ (dæŋk) /
(esp of cellars, caves, etc) unpleasantly damp and chilly
Origin of dank
1Derived forms of dank
- dankly, adverb
- dankness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse