wet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕt
ipa: /wɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
homophone: whet (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wetter
form: wettest
Etymology: From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).
Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
Senses: examples: text: Water is wet.
synonyms: wetting
glosses: Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
examples: text: I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
text: The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
text: Parents and small children can stay cool and soaking wet at interactive water playgrounds.
ref: 2013 July 31, Thom Patterson, “How to get soaking wet this summer”, in CNN:
synonyms: damp
saturated
soaked
antonyms: dry
glosses: Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
examples: text: A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
ref: 2000, Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms, page 372
text: The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
ref: 2005, Restaurant business, Volume 104, Issues 1-10
text: But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
ref: 2011, J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory, page 13
glosses: Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
examples: text: This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
glosses: Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
glosses: Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
examples: text: It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
text: 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32,
Summer drouth, or singed aire
Never scorch thy tresses faire,
Nor wet Octobers torrent flood
Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,
text: “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
ref: 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN:
text: February 2020 was officially the wettest February on record for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the second wettest (behind 1990) for Scotland.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58:
text: While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.
ref: 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN:
synonyms: damp
raining
rainy
antonyms: dry
sunny
glosses: Of weather or a time period: rainy.
examples: text: 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.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
examples: text: That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
synonyms: green
wet behind the ears
glosses: Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
examples: text: He got me all wet.
synonyms: word: horny
word: moist
word: ablaze
word: amorous
word: aroused
word: buckish
word: concupiscent
word: desirous
word: DTF
word: excited
word: frisky
word: fuckish
word: gagging for it
word: hard
word: horny
word: hot
word: hot and bothered
word: hot to trot
word: in heat
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: libidinous
word: lickerish
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: prurient
word: randy
word: ravenous
word: rock hard
word: ruttish
word: rutty
word: sexed up
word: stimulated
word: thirsty
word: toey
word: toey as a Roman sandal
word: turned on
word: unchaste
word: venereal
word: venereous
word: wanton
glosses: Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
raw_tags: of a female
examples: text: "Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "
ref: 1924, Percy Marks, chapter XVII, in The Plastic Age:
text: I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness.
ref: 2020, Boris Johnson quoted in "Proms row: Johnson calls for end to 'cringing embarrassment' over UK history," by Jim Waterson, The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2020
text: Don’t be so wet.
synonyms: feeble
hopeless
useless
drip
glosses: Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
examples: text: The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
ref: 1995, Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment:
glosses: Permitting alcoholic beverages.
examples: c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon”
[…] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]
synonyms: word: inebriated
word: soused
word: Adrian Quist
word: adrip
word: aled up
word: all mops and brooms
word: arseholed
word: a sheet in the wind
word: a sheet in the wind's eye
word: bedrunken
word: befuddled
word: beliquored
word: besotted
word: besotten
word: bevvied
word: bibacious
word: bibulous
word: binned
word: bingoed
word: bladdered
word: blasted
word: blewed
word: blind
word: blind drunk
word: blitzed
word: blocked
word: blootered
word: blottoed
word: blue
word: bollocksed
word: bombed
word: boozy
word: bosky
word: bottled
word: Brahms
word: Brahms and Liszt
word: budgy
word: bungalowed
word: bungfu
word: burlin'
word: canned
word: clobbered
word: corned
word: cocked
word: cockeyed
word: crapulous
word: crocked
word: cunted
word: cup-shot
word: cup-shotten
word: cut
word: dead drunk
word: destroyed
word: disguised
word: drunk
word: drunk as a piper
word: drunked up
word: drunken
word: ebriated
word: ebriose
word: elephant's
word: elephant's trunk
word: elevated
word: faced
word: fap
word: fershnickered
word: flooey
word: floored
word: flush
word: flushed
word: flustered
word: fluted
word: fluthered
word: feeling no pain
word: fou
word: four sheets in the wind
word: fresh
word: fried
word: frosted
word: fuckered up
word: fuckfaced
word: fuddled
word: full
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gassed
word: gattered
word: gee-eyed
word: gesuip
word: ginned
word: gished
word: glorious
word: groggified
word: groggy
word: half polluted
word: half cut
word: half lit
word: half seas over
word: hammered
word: have drink taken
word: have the sun in one's eyes
word: hazed
word: high as a Georgia pine
word: high as a kite
word: high
word: hog-whimpering
word: honkers
word: hooched up
word: hooted
word: hoovered
word: hosed
word: how came you so
word: impaired
word: in liquor
word: in one's altitudes
word: in one's cups
word: in the bag
word: in the drink
word: inebriate
word: inebriated
word: inebrious
word: insober
word: insobrietous
word: inter pocula
word: jaked
word: jarred
word: juiced
word: juiced up
word: kaylied
word: kisky
word: lamped
word: langered
word: langers
word: larruped
word: lash
word: lashed
word: lathered
word: legless
word: liquored up
word: liquory
word: lit
word: loaded
word: looped
word: loopy
word: loose
word: lubed
word: lubed up
word: lubricated
word: lushed
word: mad with it
word: maggot
word: maggoted
word: mashed
word: maudlin
word: medicated
word: messed up
word: monged
word: mortal
word: mortalled
word: Mozart and Liszt
word: muddled
word: muggy
word: mullered
word: munted
word: muzzy
word: MWI
word: nappy
word: newted
word: nimptopsical
word: obfuscated
word: obliviated
word: off one's box
word: off one's head
word: off one's tits
word: oiled
word: oiled up
word: Oliver
word: Oliver Twist
word: on the ran tan
word: ossified
word: out of it
word: out of one's box
word: out of one's face
word: out of one's head
word: out of sight
word: overcome
word: overrefreshed
word: overtaken
word: paralytic
word: parlatic
word: pickled
word: pie-eyed
word: pixilated
word: plastered
word: ploughed
word: plowed
word: polluted
word: potshot
word: potted
word: pounded
word: primed
word: puggled
word: quisby
word: raddled
word: rat-arsed
word: ratted
word: razzled
word: ripe
word: ripped
word: rolling
word: rubbered
word: sauced
word: sauced up
word: scammered
word: schloshed
word: schnockered
word: screwed
word: scuttered
word: sewed up
word: shedded
word: shellacked
word: shicker
word: shickered
word: shitty
word: skunked
word: slammed
word: slarmied
word: slizzard
word: sloppy drunk
word: sloshed
word: smashed
word: snockered
word: snookered
word: snozzled
word: snuffy
word: soaken
word: sodden
word: sotted
word: sottish
word: souped-up
word: soused
word: sozzled
word: sozzly
word: spanceled
word: spannered
word: spiffed
word: splashed
word: spongy
word: sprung
word: squiffed
word: steamboats
word: stewed
word: stinking
word: stinko
word: stoated
word: stoned
word: stonkered
word: stotious
word: strut
word: swacked
word: tanked
word: tanked up
word: temulent
word: temulentive
word: three sheets in the wind
word: three sheets to the wind
word: throwed
word: tight as a tick
word: tight
word: tilted
word: tippled
word: tipsy
word: tired and emotional
word: toasted
word: top-heavy
word: top-heavy with drink
word: toping
word: trashed
word: tuned
word: twatfaced
word: twisted
word: wastey
word: wazzed
word: wazzocked
word: well-oiled
word: wellied
word: wet
word: whittled
word: withered
word: wobbly
word: woozy
word: worse for liquor
word: worse for wear
word: wrecked
word: zoned
word: zonked
word: zooted
word: zorched
word: zotzed
glosses: Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: dry
glosses: Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
examples: text: the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
examples: a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
glosses: Involving assassination or "wet work".
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
examples: 1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661.
The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.
glosses: Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
glosses: With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
Synonyms: word: bewatered
word: damp
word: drenched
word: dripping
word: drunk
word: humid
word: irriguous
word: madid
word: moist
word: moisty
word: overwatered
word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: sodden
word: soggy
word: spewy
word: spongy
word: squidgy
word: thoan
word: thone
word: undried
word: watered
word: waterlogged
word: watery
word: wet
word: wetter than an otter's pocket
word: wiery
Hyponyms: word: bedewed
word: dank
word: doty
word: juicy
word: marshy
word: muggy
Derived terms: adequately wet
all wet
angry as a wet hen
bed-wet
draw a wet sponge across the slate
dripping wet
feet wet
get one's dick wet
get one's feet wet
get wet
hanging wet bag
heavy wet
like a wet weekend
mad as a wet hen
miserable as a wet hen
pass a wet sponge over the slate
pea wet
ridden hard and put away wet
ride hard and put away wet
ride someone hard and put them away wet
rode hard and put up wet
soaking wet
sopping wet
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
throw a wet blanket on
water is wet
way out of a wet paper bag
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
wet and messy
wet and messy fetishism
wet and warm
wet bag
wet bar
wet bargain
wet behind the ears
wet beriberi
wet-blanketry
wet blanket
wet-blanket
wet bob
wet boy
wet brain
wet break
wet-bulb
wet bulb
wet bulbing
wet bulb temperature
wet-bulb temperature
wet cell
wet check
wet chemical
wet chemistry
wet cough
wet cupping
wet dock
wet dog shakes
wet dream
wet edge time
wet end
wet fart
wet firecracker
wet fish
wet fly
wet gas
wet goods
wet haze
wet heater
wet job
wet lab
wet-lab
wetland
wet lease
wet-leasing
wetlook
wet market
wet mass
wet meadow
wet meter
wet Nelly
wet nelly
wet noodle
wet-noodle
wet nurse
wet one's clay
wet one's pants
wet-on-wet
wet pail
wet pailing
wet palette
wet plate
wet play
wet porch
wet rag
wet riser
wet room
wet rot
wet-rot
wet sanding
wet-sanding
wet sand
wet-sand
wet season
wet shaving
wet signature
wet stacking
wetsuit
wet sump
wetter than an otter's pocket
wet the bed
wet the shamrock
wet through
wet t-shirt competition
wet t-shirt contest
wet-un
wetware
wet-weather
wet weed
wet well
wet willy
wet wipe
wetwork
wild as a wet hen
wringing wet
Related terms: word: moist
word: liquid