• IPA: /dæŋk/
• (æ-tensing) IPA: /deəŋk/

dank (comparative danker, superlative dankest)

1. Dark, damp and humid.

   The dank cave was chilly and spooky.

   • 1645, John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], OCLC 606951673 ↗:

     Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.

   • Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

2. (figuratively, of marijuana) Highly potent.

   That was dank bud.

3. (slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.

• German: feucht, nasskalt
• Spanish: húmedo

• French: fort

dank (plural danks)

1. Moisture; humidity; water.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII, verse 441:

   "Yet oft they quit | The dank, and rising on siff pennons, tow'r | the mid aerial sky"

dank (danks, present participle danking; past and past participle danked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

dank (plural danks)

1. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.