wet

adjective wetter · wettest

1. Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. Water is wet.

   Similar: wetting

2. Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.

   Similar: damp, saturated, soaked · Opposite: dry

3. Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
4. Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed. This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
5. Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
6. Of weather or a time period: rainy. It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

   Similar: damp, raining, rainy · Opposite: dry, sunny

7. Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust. This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
8. slang Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie. That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.

   Similar: green, wet behind the ears

9. slang, vulgar, of a female Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions. He got me all wet.

   Similar: horny, moist, ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous, drippy, DTF, excited

10. UK, slang Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character. "Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob d

    Similar: feeble, hopeless, useless, drip

11. retronym Permitting alcoholic beverages. The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
12. archaic, slang Refreshed with liquor; drunk. c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]

    Similar: inebriated, soused, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored

13. Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.

    Opposite: dry

14. Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid. the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
15. euphemistic, slang Involving assassination or "wet work". a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
16. slang Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
17. colloquial, dated, obsolete Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance. 1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661. The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them
18. With a usual complement or consummation; potent.

Similar: bewatered, damp, drenched, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid, moist, moisty, overwatered, plashy, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, soppy, spewy, spongy, squidgy, thoan, thone, undried, watered, waterlogged, watery, wet, wetter than an otter's pocket, wiery · Opposite: dry

noun wets

1. countable, uncountable Liquid or moisture. Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
2. countable, uncountable Rainy weather. Don't go out in the wet.
3. Australia, countable, uncountable Rainy season. (often capitalized) They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
4. UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

   Opposite: dry

5. colloquial, countable, uncountable An alcoholic drink. ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’
6. US, colloquial, countable, uncountable One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition. The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
7. countable, in plural, uncountable A tyre for use in wet weather. Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.
8. colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie. Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.
9. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).

verb wets · wetting · wet · wetted

1. transitive To cover or impregnate with liquid. There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.

   Similar: drench, get wet, soak, sog

2. intransitive, transitive To make or become wet. I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet

   Similar: dampen, dew, get wet, moisten

3. transitive To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination. Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
4. transitive To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
5. informal, transitive To celebrate by drinking alcohol. to wet the baby’s head
6. Multicultural London English, US, slang To kill or seriously injure. I'm coming to get ya, I'm coming to get ya / Spitting out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya

   Similar: do away with, do violence to, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, forwork

7. misspelling Misspelling of whet

phrase

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of write everything twice, a humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.

adjective WETter · WETtest

1. Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.

   Opposite: DRY