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all wet

all wet adjective: thoroughly soaked; drenched.

Adjective

all wet (not comparable)

  1. (literally) Thoroughly soaked; drenched.
    • 1805: Journal of William Clark
      Wind Shifted about to the S. W. and blew hard accompanied with hard rain. rained all the last night we are all wet our bedding and stores are also wet, we haveing nothing which is Sufficient to keep ourselves bedding or Stores dry
    • When I came home, I found a common-looking person, all wet and muddy.1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 59, in Bleak House
  2. (idiomatic) Utterly incorrect; erroneous; uninformed.
    • ...you're all wet, calling me out on that close play at second base!1931, U.S. Army Recruiting News
    • The he'll report back to Rita that she's all wet, on account I can't possibly be interested in you when I'm carrying the torch for him, see?1935, Liberty, volume xii
  3. (idiomatic) Deliberately and grotesquely untruthful.
    • They've figured out she's a sort of a kind of Joan of Arc. I think she's all wet, and it burns me up to see such a grand person as Ash Banner fall for that stuff!1940, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Of Human Kindness

all wet meaning in Tamil and Bengali

all wet in Tamil

முற்றிலும் தவறான

all wet in Bengali

সম্পূর্ণ ভেজা, সিক্ত, সম্পূর্ণ ভুল, ভ্রান্ত, অজ্ঞাত, ইচ্ছাকৃতভাবে এবং অদ্ভুতভাবে মিথ্যা

Examples of all wet in a sentence

  • The persons you meet inside a theatre are all wet, and the actors act as if the rain had taken all the fire out of them, and they had not had time to get a fresh supply.1853, The Illustrated London Magazine:
  • William Fulbright that they were all wet in arguing that a halt in the bombing might open the way to negotiations.1965 May 28, “The Lull That Lapsed”, in Time:
  • If you think I withheld the ransom for the glory of France, you're all wet.1966, Robert Hogan, Saint Jane:

Questions about all wet

What does all wet mean?
All wet means thoroughly soaked; drenched.
What is all wet in Tamil?
All wet in Tamil is முற்றிலும் தவறான. See All wet meaning in Tamil.
How do you use all wet in a sentence?
The persons you meet inside a theatre are all wet, and the actors act as if the rain had taken all the fire out of them, and they had not had time to get a fresh supply.
What part of speech is all wet?
All wet is an adjective.

Words near all wet in the dictionary

  1. all too
  2. all too well
  3. all up with
  4. all very well
  5. all wax and no wick
  6. all wet
  7. All Whites
  8. all whithers
  9. all wool and a yard wide
  10. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  11. all y'all

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all wet (page history and authors); all wet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); all wet (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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