watery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of water.

   • The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.
2. 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.
3. 3

   Diluted or having too much water.

   • watery coffee
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   1. 4

      Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.

   2. 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.
   3. 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.
   4. 7

      Tearful.

   5. 8

      Containing many bodies of water.

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