wet
Adjective
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Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water (synset 302558087)
"a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"tells us about: wetness - the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)similar to:
- bedewed, dewy - wet with dew
- besprent - sprinkled over
- boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged - (of soil) soft and watery
- clammy, dank - unpleasantly cool and humid
- damp, dampish, moist - slightly wet
- sodden, soppy - wet through and through; thoroughly wet
- drippy, drizzly - wet with light rain
- humid - containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor
- misty - wet with mist
- muggy, steamy, sticky - hot or warm and humid
- reeking, watery - wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- rheumy - moist, damp, wet (especially of air)
- sloppy - wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
- rainy, showery - (of weather) wet by periods of rain
- steaming, steamy - filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist
- sticky - moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
- tacky - (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch
- undried - still wet or moist
- washed - wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination
- watery - filled with water
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Containing moisture or volatile components (synset 302565896)
"wet paint"
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Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages (synset 302565522)
"a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county"
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Producing or secreting milk (synset 302565037)
"a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows"similar to: fresh - having recently calved and therefore able to give milksame as: lactating
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Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor (synset 301162949)
"a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"similar to: alcoholic - characteristic of or containing alcohol
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Very drunk (synset 300801674)
domain usage: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)similar to: drunk, gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Noun
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Wetness caused by water (synset 114559033)
"drops of wet gleamed on the window"is a type of: wetness - the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)same as: moisture
Verb
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Cause to become wet (synset 200215377)
"Wet your face"subtypes:
- bedew - cover with drops of dew or as with dew
- douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- dampen, moisten, wash - make moist
- irrigate, water - supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- besprinkle, sparge, sprinkle - scatter with liquid; wet lightly
- squirt - wet with a spurt of liquid
- douse, dowse - wet thoroughly
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Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating (synset 200072483)
"This eight year old boy still wets his bed"is a type of: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee - eliminate urine
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