watery

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈwɔtəɹi/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈwɑtəɹi/
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• rhymes with -ɔːtəɹi
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɔːtɹi
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• rhymes with (cot–caught merger) -ɑtəɹi
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• CMU ARPABET: W AO1 T ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ujor — resembling or characteristic of water
• Bulgarian: воден (voden) — resembling or characteristic of water
• Finnish: vesimäinen — resembling or characteristic of water
• Finnish: vettä muistuttava — resembling or characteristic of water
• Bulgarian: мокър (mokǎr) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Bulgarian: подгизнал (podgiznal) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Dutch: waterig — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Finnish: läpimärkä — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• French: aqueux — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• German: wässrig — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Hindi: आबी (ābī) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Indonesian: berair — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Ingrian: veekäs — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Ingrian: vesikäs — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Italian: acquoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Italian: acqueo — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Italian: bagnato — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Italian: inzuppato — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Japanese: 水っぽい (mizuppoi) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Central Kurdish: ئاوی (awî) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Northern Kurdish: avî — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Latvian: ūdeņains — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Low German: wäterig — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Malay: berair — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Manx: ushtagh — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Māori: toriwai — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Māori: waiwai — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Māori: haruwai — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Māori: tōwahiwahi — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Māori: tōwāwahi — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Mopan Maya: jaʼ — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Persian: آبکی (âbaki) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Polish: wodnisty — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Portuguese: aquoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Romanian: apătos — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Romanian: apos — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Russian: водяни́стый (vodjanístyj) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: acuoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguanoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguachento — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguazoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguado — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Spanish: aguachinoso — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Swedish: våt — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Swedish: vattnig — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Swedish: blöt — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Swedish: sur — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Ottoman Turkish: صولاق (sulak) — wet, soggy or soaked with water
• Bashkir: шыйыҡ (şıyıq) — diluted or having too much water
• Bulgarian: воднист (vodnist) — diluted or having too much water
• Bulgarian: разводнен (razvodnen) — diluted or having too much water
• Finnish: vetinen — diluted or having too much water
• Kabuverdianu: xalalá — diluted or having too much water
• Kapampangan: madanum — diluted or having too much water
• Kapampangan: maranum — diluted or having too much water
• Māori: kōpūwai — diluted or having too much water
• Mongolian: шингэн (šingen) — diluted or having too much water
• Mangghuer: shangan — diluted or having too much water
• Khiamniungan Naga: tǖlēilēi — diluted or having too much water
• Polish: wodnisty — diluted or having too much water
• Russian: жи́дкий (žídkij) — diluted or having too much water
• Russian: водяни́стый (vodjanístyj) — diluted or having too much water
• Finnish: kelmeä — of light: thin and pale
• Finnish: ponneton — weak and insipid
• Finnish: vuotava — discharging water or similar
• Māori: tētēwai — discharging water or similar
• Māori: pītoritoriwai — discharging water or similar
• Spanish: lloroso — discharging water or similar
• Māori: pītoritoriwai — Discharging water due to disease etc.