wet
wetness caused by water (Freq. 1)
- drops of wet gleamed on the window
• Syn:
moisture
• Derivationally related forms:
moisten (for: moisture), moisturize (for: moisture), moisturise (for: moisture)
• Hypernyms:
wetness
1. cause to become wet (Freq. 4)
- Wet your face
• Ant:
dry
• Derivationally related forms:
wetter, wetting
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
bedew, drench, douse, dowse, soak,
sop, souse, moisten, wash, dampen, water,
irrigate, sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle, squirt
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- This eight year old boy still wets his bed
• Derivationally related forms:
wetter
• Hypernyms:
make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate,
piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak,
spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. covered or soaked with a liquid such as water (Freq. 23)
- a wet bathing suit
- wet sidewalks
- wet weather
• Ant:
dry
• Similar to:
bedewed, dewy, besprent, boggy, marshy,
miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy,
soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, clammy, dank,
damp, dampish, moist, sodden, soppy, drippy,
drizzly, humid, misty, muggy, steamy, sticky,
reeking, watery, rheumy, showery, rainy, steaming,
tacky, undried, washed
• Derivationally related forms:
wetness
• Attrubites:
wetness
2. containing moisture or volatile components
- wet paint
• Ant:
dry
• Derivationally related forms:
wetness
3. supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- a wet candidate running on a wet platform
- a wet county
• Ant:
dry
4. producing or secreting milk
- a wet nurse
- a wet cow
- lactating cows
• Syn:
lactating
• Ant:
dry
• Similar to:
fresh
5. consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- a wet cargo
- a wet canteen
• Similar to:
alcoholic
6. very drunk
• Syn:
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed,
fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered,
slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled,
squiffy, stiff, tight
• Similar to:
intoxicated, drunk, inebriated
• Usage Domain:
slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot,
patois, vernacular
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