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wet

adjective

1 he draped his wet clothes in front of the stove | their feet sank into the wet ground:

damp, dampened, moist, moistened;

soaked, drenched, saturated, wet through, sopping/dripping/wringing wet, sopping, dripping, soggy;

waterlogged, squelchy, marshy, boggy, swampy, miry;

British, dialect claggy.

▷antonyms dry.

2 it was cold and wet that day:

rainy, raining, pouring, teeming, showery, drizzly, drizzling;

damp, humid, dank, misty.

▷antonyms dry, fine.

3 the paint is still wet:

sticky, not set, not hardened, not hard, tacky;

fresh.

▷antonyms dry, set, hard.

4 a wet mortar mix:

aqueous, watery, sloppy.

▷antonyms dry.

5 British, informal they thought the cadets were a bit wet:

feeble, silly, weak, foolish, inept, ineffective, ineffectual, effete, soft, namby-pamby, timid, timorous, spiritless, cowardly, spineless;

informal sissy, sissified, pathetic, drippy, wimpish, wimpy, weedy, chicken, yellow-bellied;

British, informal daft.

▷antonyms strong; brave.

verb

wet the clothes before ironing them:

dampen, damp, moisten, humidify;

sprinkle, spray, splash;

soak, saturate, waterlog, flood, deluge, douse, souse, drench;

hose down, water, irrigate;

technical ret;

Scottish, & Northern English drouk;

archaic sop.

▷antonyms dry.

noun

1 I could feel the wet of his tears:

wetness, damp, dampness, moisture, moistness;

clamminess, sogginess;

wateriness, water, liquid.

2 the race was held in the wet:

rain, rains, drizzle, wet/rainy/showery/damp weather, precipitation, spray, dew, damp.

3 British, informal come on, don't be such a wet:

weakling, namby-pamby, baby;

coward, mouse;

informal wimp, weed, drip, snowflake, mama's boy, milksop, mollycoddle, sissy, softie, jellyfish, chicken, yellow-belly, fraidy-cat, scaredy-cat;

British, informal big girl's blouse, jessie;

North American, informal candy-ass, cupcake, pantywaist, milquetoast, pussy;

Australian, New Zealand, informal sook;

archaic poltroon.

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