|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

wateriness

DEFINITIONS OF: wateriness

1

n the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

“the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield”
Synonyms:
muddiness, sloppiness
Type of:
wetness
the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)

n the property of resembling the viscosity of water

Type of:
thinness
a consistency of low viscosity

n meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

“the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions”
“the wateriness of his blood”
“no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes”
Type of:
exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
the quality of being meager
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES