wet

Plural: wets

Noun

• wetness caused by water
  • "drops of wet gleamed on the window"
• Liquid or moisture.
• Rainy weather.
• Rainy season. (often capitalized)
• A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
• An alcoholic drink.
• One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
• A tyre for use in wet weather.
• A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
• Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).

Verb

Verb Forms: wetted, wetting, wets

• To make something damp or thoroughly saturated with liquid.
• cause to become wet
  • "Wet your face"
• make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
  • "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
• To cover or impregnate with liquid.
• To make or become wet.
• To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
• To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
• To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
• To kill or seriously injure.
• Misspelling of whet.

Adjective

• Covered, soaked, or saturated with a liquid.
• covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
  • "a wet bathing suit"
  • "wet sidewalks"
  • "wet weather"
• containing moisture or volatile components
  • "wet paint"
• supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
  • "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"
  • "a wet county"
• producing or secreting milk
  • "a wet nurse"
  • "a wet cow"

Adjective Satellite

• consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
  • "a wet cargo"
  • "a wet canteen"
• very drunk

Adj

• Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
• Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
• Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
• Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
• Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
• Of weather or a time period: rainy.
• Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
• Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
• Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
• Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
• Permitting alcoholic beverages.
• Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
• Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
• Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
• Involving assassination or "wet work".
• Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
• Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
• With a usual complement or consummation; potent.

Examples

• Don't go out in the wet.
• Don’t be so wet.
• He got me all wet.
• He managed to WET his opponent’s spirits with a surprising triple-word score.
• His eyes became WET with tears of joy after playing a seven-letter Bingo.
• I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
• It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
• Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
• She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
• That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
• The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
• the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
• This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
• This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
• to wet the baby’s head
• Water is wet.

Synonyms

besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, lactating, loaded, moisture, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, DTF, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, ablaze, abuse, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, amorous, annihilate, annoy, aroused, arseholed, bag, baptize, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, bereave of life, besotten, bevvied, bewatered, bewound, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blight, blind, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, bring down, buckish, budgy, bump off, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', bury, cack, canned, clobbered, cocked, compromised to a permanent end, concupiscent, corned, crapulous, croak, crush, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, damage, damnify, damp, dampen, dash, deactivate, dead, dead drunk, demolish, dere, desirous, destroy, destroyed, dew, disguised, dispatch, dispose of, do, do away with, do damage to, do for, do ill, do in, do violence to, drench, drenched, drip, dripping, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, dust, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, excited, exterminate, faced, fap, feeble, feeling no pain, fershnickered, finish, finish off, flatten, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, forwork, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frisky, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuckish, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gagging for it, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, get wet, ginned, gished, glorious, grease, green, grieve, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, hard, harm, harrow, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hopeless, horny, hosed, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, how came you so, humid, hurt, impaired, in heat, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, injure, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, irriguous, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, knock off, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lascivious, lash, lashed, lathered, lay waste to, legless, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, liquored up, liquory, lit, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, lustful, lusty, mad with it, madid, maggot, maggoted, make away with, mashed, maudlin, maul, medicated, messed up, misdo, moist, moisten, moisty, monged, mortal, mortalled, mortify, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, neutralize, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliterate, obliviated, off, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, overwatered, paralytic, parlatic, pay off, pick off, pickled, plashy, ploughed, plowed, polish off, polluted, pop off, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, prurient, puggled, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone in hospital, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, quisby, raddled, raining, rainy, randy, rat-arsed, ratted, ravage, ravenous, razzled, ripe, ripped, rock hard, rolling, rub out, rubbered, ruin, ruttish, rutty, saturated, sauced, sauced up, scaith, scammered, scathe, schloshed, schnockered, scotch, screwed, scupper, scuttered, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, sewed up, sexed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slaughter, slay, slizzard, sloppy drunk, smash, smite, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuff, snuffy, soak, soaken, sodden, sog, soggy, sotted, sottish, souped-up, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spewy, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squash, squidgy, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stimulated, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stop someone's clock, stotious, strut, swacked, take, take care of, take down, take out, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, thirsty, thoan, thone, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, top, top off, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, torpedo, trashed, tuned, turned on, twatfaced, twisted, unchaste, undried, useless, venereal, venereous, vulnerate, wanton, waste, wastey, watered, waterlogged, watery, wax, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, wet behind the ears, wetter than an otter's pocket, wetting, whack, whittled, wiery, wipe out, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wound, wreck, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

dry, sunny

Related Words

liquid, moist

Anagrams of wet