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waterly

waterly adjective: of or relating to water; aquatic.

Adjective

waterly (comparative more waterly, superlative most waterly)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to water; aquatic.
    • Firstly, a set of waterly elements which may not be able to assimilate to a simple thickness line. These objects have some certain width, for example, lakes, swamps, ponds, and so on.1981, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Technical papers of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
    • Bottom or land boundaries constitute wall boundaries for waterly flow, while for air flow similar wall boundaries are represented by land/ground and sea surface.2007, Geir Hasle, Knut-Andreas Lie, Ewald Quak, Geometric Modelling, Numerical Simulation, and Optimization

Forms of waterly

comparativemore waterly
superlativemost waterly

Origin of waterly

From Middle English watirly, from Old English wæterlīċ (“aquatic”), equivalent to water + -ly.

Questions about waterly

What does waterly mean?
Waterly means of or relating to water; aquatic.
What part of speech is waterly?
Waterly is an adjective.

Words near waterly in the dictionary

  1. Waterloos
  2. Waterloovian
  3. Waterloovians
  4. Waterlooville
  5. Waterlow
  6. waterly
  7. watermain
  8. watermains
  9. watermaker
  10. watermakers
  11. waterman

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