English Explanatory Dictionary

watery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
  2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
  3. Diluted or having too much water.
  4. Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
  5. Weak and insipid.
  6. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
  7. Tearful.
  8. Containing many bodies of water.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɔːtəɹi/ /ˈwɔːtɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-watery.wav /ˈwɔtəɹi/ /ˈwɑtəɹi/

Word forms

watery waterier wateriest watry

Etymology

From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.

Synonyms

aqueous aquose waterish flowy fluent fluid fluxive free-flowing liquid mobile runny thin watery drenched moist waterlogged bewatered damp dripping drunk humid irriguous madid moisty overwatered plashy saturated soaked sodden soggy soppy spewy spongy squidgy thoan thone undried watered wet wetter than an otter's pocket wiery wishy-washy bland flavorless cardboard flaggy ingustible intastable savorless insipid tame gustless sapidless mawkish smackless tasteless unsavory untasteable vapid wallowish

Related words

milk-and-watery

Derived words

unwatery wateriness
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