moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
in a liquid form or state: wet paint.
characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid.
moistened or dampened with rain; rainy: Wet streets make driving hazardous.
allowing or favoring the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet town.
characterized by frequent rain, mist, etc.: the wet season.
laden with a comparatively high percent of moisture or vapor, especially water vapor: There was a wet breeze from the west.
Informal.
intoxicated.
marked by drinking: a wet night.
using water or done under or in water, as certain chemical, mining, and manufacturing processes.
noun
something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture: The wet from the earth had made the basement unlivable.
damp weather; rain: Stay out of the wet as much as possible.
a person in favor of allowing the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. wetback.
verb (used with object),wet or wet·ted,wet·ting.
to make (something) wet, as by moistening or soaking (sometimes followed by through or down): Wet your hands before soaping them.
to urinate on or in: The dog had wet the carpet.
verb (used without object),wet or wet·ted,wet·ting.
to become wet (sometimes followed by through or down): Dampness may cause plastered walls to wet. My jacket has wet through.
(of animals and children) to urinate.
Idioms for wet
all wet, Informal. completely mistaken; in error: He insisted that our assumptions were all wet.
wet behind the ears, immature; naive; green: She was too wet behind the ears to bear such responsibilities.
wet one's whistle. whistle (def. 15).
wet out, to treat (fabric) with a wetting agent to increase its absorbency.
Origin of wet
First recorded before 900; Middle English wett, past participle of weten,Old English wǣtan “to wet”; replacing Middle English weet,Old English wǣt, cognate with Old Frisian wēt,Old Norse vātr; akin to water
SYNONYMS FOR wet
1 dampened, drenched.
4 misty, drizzling.
7 humid.
10 wetness, humidity, dampness, dankness.
11 drizzle.
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ANTONYMS FOR wet
1 dry.
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synonym study for wet
14. Wet,drench,saturate,soak imply moistening something. To wet is to moisten in any manner with water or other liquid: to wet or dampen a cloth.Drench suggests wetting completely as by a downpour: A heavy rain drenched the fields.Saturate implies wetting to the limit of absorption: to saturate a sponge. To soak is to keep in a liquid for a time: to soak beans before baking.
Ken Chapman flies a strange-looking helicopter for Erickson Incorporated called an S-64 Aircrane, and to get the wet stuff on board, all he has to do is submerge a snorkel about 18 inches deep in a body of water.
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The MJO travels eastward along the equator as winds push warm, wet air high into the atmosphere, where the air dries out, cools and descends back toward the surface.
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I took a hose to the pack for a few minutes, and some of my outer layers got wet through the zippers.