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watery

adjective

1 the patient's nose may be streaming with a watery discharge:

liquid, fluid, liquefied;

technical aqueous, hydrous.

▷antonyms solid.

2 a watery meadow:

wet, damp, moist, sodden, soggy, squelchy, soft;

saturated, waterlogged;

marshy, boggy, swampy, fenny, miry, muddy, oozy.

▷antonyms dry.

3 a bowl of watery porridge:

thin, runny, weak, sloppy, dilute, diluted, watered down, thinned down, adulterated;

tasteless, flavourless, insipid, bland;

informal wishy-washy.

▷antonyms thick, concentrated.

4 the light was watery and grey:

pale, wan, thin, faint, weak, feeble, washed out, anaemic, colourless, insipid;

informal wishy-washy.

▷antonyms bright.

5 she dabbed at a watery eye:

tearful, teary, weeping, weepy, moist, rheumy, dewy-eyed;

formal lachrymose.

▷antonyms dry.

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See runny.

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