Meaning of WATERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'woturee
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- [adj] overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"
- [adj] relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery grave"
- [adj] filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
- [adj] wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"
- [adj] filled with water; "watery soil"
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| | Synonyms: | | dilute, diluted, dripping, liquid, reeking, swimming, tearful, washy, weak, wet |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wa"ter*y\, a. [AS. w[ae]terig.]
1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. ``The
watery god.'' --Dryden. ``Fish within their watery
residence.'' --Milton.
2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
watery humors.
The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
--Arbuthnot.
4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
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