wet

modif.

1. Covered or soaked with liquid

   moist, damp, soaking, soaked, drenched, soggy, muggy, dewy, watery, dank, slimy, dripping, saturated, waterlogged, sodden.

   Antonyms dry*, dried*, clean*. *

2. Rainy

   drizzly, slushy, snowy, slippery, muddy, humid, foggy, damp, clammy, showery, stormy, drizzling, cloudy, misty.

   Antonyms clear*, sunny*, cloudless. *

3. *Favoring or permitting liquor

   open, antiprohibitionist, pro-repeal, alcoholic, serving liquor.

4. *Mistaken

   inaccurate, misled, in error; see mistaken 1, wrong 2.

wet is applied to something covered or soaked with water or other liquid wet streets, clothes, etc. or to something not yet dry wet paint; damp implies slight, usually undesirable or unpleasant wetness a damp room; dank suggests a disagreeable, chilling, unwholesome dampness a dank fog; moist implies slight but, unlike damp, often desirable wetness moist air; humid implies such permeation of the air with moisture as to make for discomfort a hot, humid day

wet

v.