watery
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- filled with water
- "watery soil"
- wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water
- "a watery substance"
- "a watery color"
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- "watery milk"
Adj
- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Diluted or having too much water.
- Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Weak and insipid.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
- Tearful.
- Containing many bodies of water.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.
Synonyms
aqueous, aquose, bland, drenched, flavorless, insipid, moist, reeking, washy, waterlogged, weak, wet, wishy-washy
Scrabble Score: 12
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