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waterie

waterie is the obsolete form of watery.

Meaning of watery

Adjective

watery (comparative waterier, superlative wateriest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
    • The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.2005, Robert L. Mott, Radio Sound Effects
  2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
    • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59
  3. Diluted or having too much water.
    • watery coffee
    Synonyms:
    wishy-washy
  4. Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
  5. Weak and insipid.
    • Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 194
  6. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
    • I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes.

See all 8 meanings of watery

Forms of waterie

comparativemore waterie
superlativemost waterie

Questions about waterie

What is waterie the obsolete form of?
Waterie is the obsolete form of watery.

Words near waterie in the dictionary

  1. Waterhouse diaphragms
  2. Waterhouse stop
  3. Waterhouse stops
  4. Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
  5. waterhouses
  6. waterie
  7. waterier
  8. wateriest
  9. waterily
  10. waterin'
  11. wateriness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waterie (page history and authors); watery (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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