adj
Meaning 1
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Water is wet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wetting
Antonyms: none provided
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adj
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: wetting
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: damp, saturated, soaked
Antonyms: dry
adj
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: damp, raining, rainy
Antonyms: dry, sunny
adj
Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: green, wet behind the ears
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, vulgar
Synonyms: horny, moist, ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous, drippy, DTF, excited, flustered, frisky, fuckish, gagging for it, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, impure, in heat, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, lusty, prurient, randy, ravenous, ruttish, rutty, sexed up, stimulated, thirsty, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, turned on, unchaste, venereal, venereous, wanton
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless, drip
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Permitting alcoholic beverages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: retronym
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
Synonyms: inebriated, soused, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
adj
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Involving assassination or "wet work".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, slang
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: card-games, poker
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dated, obsolete
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: DRY
noun
Liquid or moisture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Rainy weather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Rainy season. (often capitalized)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
noun
An alcoholic drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A tyre for use in wet weather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, motor-racing, racing, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
phrase
Acronym of write everything twice, a humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: drench, get wet, soak, sog
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make or become wet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dampen, dew, get wet, moisten
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: soldering
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To kill or seriously injure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, US, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: do away with, do violence to, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, forwork, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, mayhem, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, scathe, vulnerate, wet, wound, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shut up, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, whack, wipe out, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Misspelling of whet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
adjective
producing or secreting milk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lactating
Antonyms: dry
adjective
supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
adjective
containing moisture or volatile components
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
adjective satellite
very drunk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
wetness caused by water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: moisture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wetness
verb
make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
verb
cause to become wet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: dry
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: bedew, drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse, moisten, wash, dampen, water, irrigate, sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle, squirt
History
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water). Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
Across languages
451 source translations are retained for this English entry.