Illustration: In a small ground-floor apartment during the rainy season, a resident pinches a sock on an indoor drying rack and discovers it is still limp and damp. The other socks sag heavily beside it.

じめじめ

jimejime

damp, humid

Example sentences

今日きょうは、じめじめして寒さむいですね。
It is damp and cold today, isn’t it?
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じめじめした寒さむい日ひは健康けんこうに悪わるい。
A damp, cold day affects a person’s health.
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彼かれらは夏なつのじめじめした気候きこうに慣なれている。
They are used to the humid climate of the summer.
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