Phrase guide

soaking wet

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Extremely wet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: idiomatic, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drenched, soaked to the bone, sopping wet, wet through, wringing wet

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

As a maximum; at most.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Dutch: kletsnat — extremely wet
  • Esperanto: malsekega — extremely wet
  • Finnish: likomärkä — extremely wet
  • Finnish: litimärkä — extremely wet
  • Finnish: läpimärkä — extremely wet
  • Finnish: litsmärkä — extremely wet
  • French: trempé comme une soupe — extremely wet
  • German: klatschnass — extremely wet
  • Hungarian: csuromvizes — extremely wet
  • Icelandic: rennblautur — extremely wet
  • Indonesian: basah kuyup — extremely wet
  • Irish: báite — extremely wet
  • Macedonian: жива вода (živa voda) — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: klissvåt — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gjennomvåt — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: søkkvåt — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: klissvåt — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gjennomvåt — extremely wet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: søkkvåt — extremely wet
  • Polish: mokry jak gnój — extremely wet
  • Romania: ud fleașcă — extremely wet
  • Scottish Gaelic: bog fliuch — extremely wet
  • Swedish: dyngsur — extremely wet
  • Swedish: plaskvåt — extremely wet
  • Finnish: korkeimmillaan — maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)
  • French: tout mouillé — maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)