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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
watery \wa"tery\, a. as. waeterig.
   1913 webster
   1. of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "the
      watery god." --dryden. "fish within their watery
      residence." --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
      1913 webster

   3. resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
      watery humors.
      1913 webster

            the oily and watery parts of the aliment.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   4. hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
      tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
watery
     adj 1: filled with water; "watery soil"
     2: wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood
        or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" syn: reeking, dripping
     3: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery
        eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" syn: liquid,
         swimming
     4: relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery
        grave"
     5: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery
        milk"; "weak tea" syn: washy, weak
see also:
reeking dripping liquid swimming washy weak 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
171 moby thesaurus words for "watery":
   lenten, spartan, abstemious, airy, anemic, aquatic, aqueous,
   ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, banal, bland, bloodless,
   boyish, changeable, dead, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted,
   dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, excretory, exiguous, fade, fine,
   fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, flowing, fluent,
   fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary,
   frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly,
   halfhearted, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, impoverished, inane,
   indecisive, indifferent, infirm of purpose, infirm of will,
   insipid, insubstantial, irresolute, jejune, juicy, lachrymal,
   lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, lacy,
   lean, light, limited, liquid, liquidy, meager, mean, mild,
   milk-and-water, milky, miserly, misty, mushy, namby-pamby, narrow,
   neutral, niggardly, pallid, paltry, papery, pappy, parsimonious,
   plashy, poor, pulpy, puny, rare, rarefied, rheumy, runny, salivant,
   salivary, salivous, sapless, sappy, savorless, scant, scanty,
   scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, secretional, secretive, secretory,
   seminal, serous, sialagogic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slenderish,
   slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, sloppy, small, spare,
   sparing, spermatic, spiceless, splashy, stale, starvation, stingy,
   stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, succulent,
   svelte, swashy, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
   thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unflavored,
   unnourishing, unnutritious, unsavory, vague, vapid, washy,
   wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watering, waterish, weak,
   willowy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy





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