wet

“drops of wet gleamed on the window”

Type of:: wetness
the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)

“a wet bathing suit”

“wet sidewalks”

“wet weather”

Synonyms: bedewed, dewy
wet with dew; 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; sodden, soppy
wet through and through; thoroughly 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); sloppy
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; rainy, showery
(of weather) wet by periods of rain; 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 such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; undried
still wet or moist; washed
wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination; watery
filled with water

Antonyms:: dry
free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; air-dried
made dry by contact with unheated air; air-dry
not giving off moisture on exposure to the air; arid, waterless
lacking sufficient water or rainfall; bone dry, bone-dry
without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone; desiccated, dried-out
thoroughly dried out; dried
not still wet; dried-up
depleted of water; dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; dry-shod
having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; kiln-dried
dried in a kiln; rainless
lacking rain; semiarid
somewhat arid; semi-dry
somewhat dry; thirsty
needing moisture; show more antonyms...

“wet paint”

“a wet nurse”

“a wet cow”

Antonyms:: dry
not producing milk; milkless
having no milk; show more antonyms...

“a wet cargo”

“a wet canteen”

“a wet candidate running on a wet platform”

“a wet county”

Antonyms:: dry
opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages

Synonyms:: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight

: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

“Wet your face”

Types:: show 18 types...; hide 18 types...; bedew
cover with drops of dew or as with dew; douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse
cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; dampen, moisten, wash
make moist; irrigate, water
supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; besprinkle, sparge, sprinkle
scatter with liquid; wet lightly; squirt
wet with a spurt of liquid; douse, dowse
wet thoroughly; humidify, moisturise, moisturize
make (more) humid; brine
soak in brine; bedraggle, draggle
make wet and dirty, as from rain; bate
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; ret
place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue; hose, hose down
water with a hose; baste
cover with liquid before cooking; flush
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; flush, sluice
irrigate with water from a sluice; hush
run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals; squish
put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

“This eight year old boy still wets his bed”

Type of:: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee
eliminate urine

DEFINITIONS OF: wet