watry

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

   Synonyms:

   aqueous, aquose, waterish, flowy, fluent, fluid, fluxive, free-flowing, liquid, mobile

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

   Synonyms:

   drenched, moist, waterlogged, bewatered, damp, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid

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

   Synonyms:

   bland, flavorless, cardboard, flaggy, ingustible, intastable, savorless, insipid, tame, gustless

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.

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