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watery

  • /ˈwɔːtəɹi/ UK
  • /ˈwɔːtɹi/ UK
  • /ˈwɔtəɹi/ US
  • /ˈwɑtəɹi/ cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːtəɹi, (Received Pronunciation) -ɔːtɹi, (cot–caught merger) -ɑtəɹi

Where it comes from

From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.

adjective waterier · wateriest · watry

  1. Resembling or characteristic of water. The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.
  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. Diluted or having too much water. watery coffee
  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.
  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.
  7. Tearful.
  8. Containing many bodies of water. The good stuff in High Tide is the visual loveliness, maybe too lovely for the supposedly depressed seaport of Eden, the film's southern Australia locale. High Tide is laden with luscious pastels, watery vistas and quirky, weather-beaten clam joints.

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