English > wet: 9 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water. |
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| Examples | - "a wet bathing suit"
- "wet sidewalks"
- "wet weather"
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| Attribute of | wetness | The condition of containing or being covered by a liquid / liquid (especially water) |
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| Narrower | bedewed, dewy | wet with dew |
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| besprent | sprinkled over |
| boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged | (of soil) soft and watery |
| clammy, dank | unpleasantly cool and humid |
| damp, dampish, moist | slightly wet |
| drippy, drizzly | wet with light rain |
| humid | Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor |
| misty | wet with mist |
| muggy, steamy, sticky | Hot or warm and humid |
| reeking, watery | wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears |
| rheumy | moist, damp, wet (especially of air) |
| showery, rainy | (of weather) wet by periods of rain |
| sloppy | wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material |
| sodden, soppy | wet through and through |
| steaming, steamy | Filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist |
| sticky | moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body |
| tacky | (of a glutinous liquid / liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch |
| undried | Still wet or moist |
| washed | wet as from washing |
| watery | Filled with water |
| Opposite | dry | Free from liquid / liquid or moisture |
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| Spanish | empapado, húmedo, mojado |
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| Catalan | humit, moll, xopat |
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| Nouns | wetness | the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid / liquid (especially water) |
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English > wet: 9 senses > adjective 6| Meaning | Very drunk. |
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| Synonyms | besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight |
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| Broader | intoxicated, drunk, inebriated, ripped, gone | stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) |
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| Usage of | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
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| Spanish | achispado, ajumado, borracho, ciego, curda, curdela, mamado, pedo, piripí, trompa |
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| Catalan | borratxo, gat, mamat, mullat, pet, pilloc, pitof, trompa, xop |
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English > wet: 9 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | Cause to become wet. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "Wet your face" |
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| Narrower | bedew | Cover with drops of dew or as with dew |
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| douse, dowse | wet thoroughly |
| drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse | Cover with liquid / liquid |
| moisten, wash, dampen | make moist |
| sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle | scatter with liquid / liquid |
| squirt | wet with a spurt of liquid / liquid |
| water, irrigate | Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | dry, dry out | Remove the moisture from and make dry |
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| Spanish | humedecer, mojar |
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| Catalan | humitejar, mullar, remullar |
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| Nouns | wet | wetness caused by water |
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| wetter | a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process |
| wetting | the act of making something wet |
