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
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How to use dank in a sentence
Breaths born of the wide sea unfiltered through forest dankness visited more keenly the nostrils of the voyagers.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettThe silk of the curls on the forehead had a dankness and lifelessness which almost made her catch her breath again.
Robin | Frances Hodgson BurnettThere was no time to waste, for the darkness was increasing, and the clammy dankness of the air struck to the very marrow.
Big Game | Mrs. George de Horne VaizeyHe shivered, but there was something more than the cold dankness of the air to make him shiver.
Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge KelleamThe mildew and dirt, the dark denuded dankness of that old hostel, rotting down with damp and time!
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy | John Galsworthy
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
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