'WET' definitions:
Definition of 'wet'
From: WordNet
adjective
Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]
adjective
Containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint" [ant: dry]
adjective
Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
adjective
Producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: wet, lactating] [ant: dry]
adjective
Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
adjective
Very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]
noun
Wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture, wet]
verb
verb
Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
Definition of 'Wet'
From: GCIDE
- Wet \Wet\, n. [AS. w[=ae]ta. See Wet, a.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree. [1913 Webster]
- Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A dram; a drink. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wet'
From: GCIDE
- Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel. v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]137. See Water.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. "Wet cheeks." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.
- Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wet'
From: GCIDE
- Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. & vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. w[=ae]tan.] To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth. "[The scene] did draw tears from me and wetted my paper." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To wet one's whistle, to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles. --Walton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wet'
From: GCIDE
- Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. & vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. w[=ae]tan.] To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth. "[The scene] did draw tears from me and wetted my paper." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To wet one's whistle, to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles. --Walton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apish,
- asinine,
- asperge,
- batty,
- bedew,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- bespatter,
- besprinkle,
- blood rain,
- bogginess,
- boggy,
- boozy,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- canned,
- cat-and-dog weather,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- dabble,
- daffy,
- daft,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampish,
- dampness,
- dank,
- dash,
- dazed,
- deluge,
- dew,
- dewiness,
- dewy,
- dirty weather,
- disguised,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- douche,
- douse,
- draft,
- dram,
- drench,
- drenched,
- drink,
- dripping,
- drizzle,
- drop,
- drown,
- drunk,
- dumb,
- evening mist,
- exudation,
- fall,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- fenny,
- fill,
- flaky,
- flurry,
- fogginess,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gargle,
- goofy,
- gout of rain,
- gulled,
- guzzle,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humectation,
- humid,
- humidify,
- humor,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- impregnate,
- inane,
- inebriated,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- irrigate,
- jigger,
- jolt,
- kooky,
- lave,
- libation,
- loony,
- mad,
- make water,
- marshiness,
- marshy,
- maudlin,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- misty rain,
- mizzle,
- moist,
- moisten,
- moistiness,
- moistness,
- moisture,
- monsoon,
- moronic,
- muggy,
- nip,
- number one,
- nutty,
- paddle,
- patter,
- pee,
- pee-pee,
- peg,
- piddle,
- piss,
- pitter-patter,
- pixilated,
- plastered,
- potation,
- potion,
- precipitation,
- predominance of Aquarius,
- pull,
- pump bilge,
- rain,
- raindrop,
- rainfall,
- raininess,
- rains,
- rainwater,
- rainy,
- rainy day,
- rainy season,
- rainy weather,
- rinse,
- roric,
- roriferous,
- round,
- round of drinks,
- sappy,
- saturate,
- saturated,
- Scotch mist,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- sheet of rain,
- shot,
- shower,
- showeriness,
- silly,
- sip,
- slobber,
- slop,
- slosh,
- slug,
- snifter,
- snort,
- soak,
- soaked,
- soaking,
- sodden,
- soddenness,
- sogginess,
- soggy,
- sop,
- soppiness,
- sopping,
- soppy,
- souse,
- soused,
- sparge,
- spatter,
- spell of rain,
- spend a penny,
- splash,
- splatter,
- sponge,
- spot,
- spray,
- spring rains,
- sprinkle,
- stale,
- sticky,
- stormy weather,
- stupid,
- suck,
- sup,
- swampiness,
- swampy,
- swash,
- swig,
- swill,
- syringe,
- tacky,
- thoughtless,
- tot,
- undried,
- unfrozen hydrometeor,
- urinate,
- wacky,
- wash,
- water,
- wateriness,
- wee-wee,
- wet down,
- wet season,
- wet weather,
- wetness,
- wettish,
- wettishness,
- witless
Acronyms for 'WET'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Western European Time [+0000] (TZ, WDT)
Words containing 'WET'
- Wetness,
- Wetted,
- Wetting,
- A wet blanket,
- Wet blanket,
- Wet cup,
- Wet cupping,
- Wet dock,
- Wet goods,
- Wet meter,
- Wet nurse,
- Wet plate,
- Wet steam,
- dripping wet,
- wet bar,
- wet cell,
- wet dream,
- wet fly,
- wet lung,
- wet norther,
- wet pack,
- wet suit,
- wetting agent,
- To wet one's whistle,
- Wet-shod,
- bed-wetting,
- wet-nurse,
- Wet-bulb thermometer