Wet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water.
  • adj. Not yet dry or firm: wet paint.
  • adj. Stored or preserved in liquid.
  • adj. Used or prepared with water or other liquids.
  • adj. Rainy, humid, or foggy: wet weather.
  • adj. Characterized by frequent or heavy precipitation: a wet climate.
  • adj. Informal Allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet county.
  • adj. Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents: wet chemistry.
  • n. Something that wets; moisture.
  • n. Rainy or snowy weather: go out into the wet.
  • n. Informal One who supports the legality of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
  • v. To make wet; dampen: wet a sponge.
  • v. To make (a bed or one's clothes) wet by urinating.
  • verb-intransitive. To become wet.
  • verb-intransitive. To urinate.
  • idiom. all wet Slang Entirely mistaken.
  • idiom. wet behind the ears Inexperienced; green.
  • idiom. wet (one's) whistle Informal To take a drink.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
  • adj. Of weather or a day, rainy.
  • adj. Made up of liquid or moisture.
  • adj. Of a person, ineffectual.
  • adj. Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
  • adj. Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
  • adj. Working with chemical or biological matter.
  • adj. Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
  • adj. Covered in a sauce.
  • n. Liquid or moisture.
  • n. Rainy weather.
  • n. A moderate Conservative.
  • n. An alcoholic drink.
  • v. To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  • v. To urinate accidentally in or on.
  • v. To become wet
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface
  • adj. Very damp; rainy.
  • adj. Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
  • adj. Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
  • n. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
  • n. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
  • n. A dram; a drink.
  • v. To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Covered with or permeated by a moist or fluid substance; charged with moisture: as, a wet sponge; wet land; wet cheeks; a wet painting (one on which the paint is still semi-fluid).
  • Filled with or containing a supply of water: as, a wet dock; a wet meter. See phrases below.
  • Consisting of water or other liquid; of a watery nature.
  • Characterized by rain; rainy; drizzly; showery: as, wet weather; a wet season (used especially with reference to tropical or semitropical countries, in which the year is divided into wet and dry seasons).
  • Drenched or drunk with liquor; tipsy.
  • In U. S. polit. slang, opposed to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors: as, a wet town. Compare dry, 13.
  • n. That which makes wet, as water and other liquids; moisture; specifically, rain.
  • n. The act of wetting; specifically, a wetting of the throat with drink; a drink or dram of liquor; indulgence in drinking.
  • n. In U. S. polit. slang, an opponent of prohibition; one who favors the traffic in liquor.
  • To make wet; moisten, drench, or soak with water or other fluid; dip or soak in a liquid.
  • To moisten with drink; hence, figuratively, to inaugurate or celebrate by a drink or a treat of liquor: as, to wet a new hat.
  • n. A Middle English form of wit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. very drunk
  • adj. covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
  • adj. consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
  • v. cause to become wet
  • adj. producing or secreting milk
  • v. make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
  • adj. supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
  • adj. containing moisture or volatile components
  • n. wetness caused by water
  • Equivalent
    inebriated    intoxicated    drunk    boggy    rainy    muggy    steaming    watery    sodden    marshy   
    Antonym
    dry   
    Verb Form
    wets    wetted    wetting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pass water    piss    relieve oneself    pee-pee    wee    wee-wee    piddle    spend a penny    make water    take a leak   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    wettest    wetted    wetter    wetting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    damp    nasty    moist    humid    rainy    drunk    dram    drink    sprinkle    water   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret    Brett    Burnett    Calumet    Chalmette    Chet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spin-dry    soft    moist    dirty    cold    muddy