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watered-down

watered-down adjective: containing extra water.

Adjective

watered-down (comparative more watered-down, superlative most watered-down)

  1. Containing extra water.
    • Nobody likes watered-down scotch.
    Synonyms:
    diluted
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) Weakened or simplified.
    • They teach a watered-down calculus class for non-majors.

watered-down meaning in Bengali

watered-down in Bengali

অতিরিক্ত জল মিশ্রিত, দুর্বল, সরলীকৃত

Synonyms of watered-down

Forms of watered-down

comparativemore watered-down
superlativemost watered-down
alternative formwatered down

Origin of watered-down

Adjectivized past participle of water down.

Questions about watered-down

What does watered-down mean?
Watered-down means containing extra water.
What is watered-down in Bengali?
Watered-down in Bengali is অতিরিক্ত জল মিশ্রিত, দুর্বল, সরলীকৃত. See Watered-down meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is watered-down?
Watered-down is an adjective.

Words near watered-down in the dictionary

  1. waterdrops
  2. watered
  3. watered down
  4. watered stock
  5. watered stocks
  6. watered-down
  7. wateredst
  8. Wateree
  9. waterer
  10. waterers
  11. waterest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watered-down (page history and authors); watered-down (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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