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wet (wet)

adjective wetter wet′·ter, wettest wet′·test

  1. moistened, covered, or saturated with water or other liquid
  2. rainy; foggy; misty a wet day
  3. not yet dry wet paint
  4. preserved or bottled in a liquid
  5. using water; done with or in water or other liquid wet sanding
  6. ☆ permitting or favoring the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages; opposing prohibition a wet candidate, wet town
  7. Brit., Informal weak, ineffectual, insipid, etc.

Etymology: ME < OE wæt, akin to ON vatr: for IE base see water

noun

  1. water or other liquid; moisture
  2. rain or rainy weather come in out of the wet
  3. Informal a person who favors the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages; one opposed to prohibition
  4. Brit., Informal
    1. a person considered weak, ineffectual, insipid, etc.
    2. a Conservative who is moderate or willing to compromise

transitive verb, intransitive verb wet or wetted wet′·ted, wetting wet′·ting

  1. to make or become wet: often with through or down
  2. to make (a bed, oneself, etc.) wet by urination

Related Forms:

wet Idioms

all wet

Slang wrong; mistaken

wet behind the ears

Informal young and inexperienced; immature

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wet Synonyms

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.


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wet Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • dew: Walking boots ( conditions may be wet with early morning dew so wellingtons optional ).

Modifying Another Word

  • exceptionally: This follows an exceptionally wet winter which slowed coal production in the first four months of the financial year.

Modifies a noun

  • weather: Will they perch openly in wet weather or take some shelter?

Used with adjective complement

  • soak: You lay, soaking wet, in a small hollow in the corner of a ruined building.
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wet quotes

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

-Anonymous

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

-Hopkins, SirAnthony

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis

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