dank
Unpleasantly damp, cold and musty, like the inside of a cave.
dank in a sentence
- The dank cellar smelled of wet stone, and water dripped slowly down its cold walls.
- Our tent felt dank after three days of rain, damp and musty from floor to roof.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to dank?
- Aairy
- Bdamp
- Cwarm
- Ddry
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B: damp. The other three mean the opposite of dank.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to dank?
- Awet
- Bdamp
- Cchilly
- Ddry
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D: dry. The other three mean nearly the same as dank.
Words that mean something similar
damp, wet, chilly
Words that mean the opposite
dry, warm, airy
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- derelict: Empty, abandoned and falling to pieces.
- desolate: Empty, lonely and sad, with nothing and nobody in it.
- dilapidated: Falling to pieces because it has not been looked after.
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- exotic: Unusual and exciting because it comes from a faraway place.
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test