Found 3 hits - Term: watery, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [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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