Word Meanings - WATERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton. 2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The

Additional info about word: WATERY

1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton. 2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The oily and watery parts of the aliment. Arbuthnot. 4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WATERY)

• Liquid
• Fluid
• liquescent
• melting
• running
• watery
• fluent
• soft
• mellifluous
• limpid
• flowing
• clear
• smooth
• Weak
• Feeble
• infirm
• enfeebled
• powerless
• debile
• fragile
• incompact
• inadhesive
• pliant
• frail
• oft
• tender
• milk and water
• flabby
• flimsy
• wishy washy
• destructible
• diluted
• imbecile
• inefficient
• spiritless
• foolish
• injudicious
• unsound
• undecided
• unconfirmed
• irrepressible
• wavering
• ductile
• easy
• malleable
• unconvincing
• inconclusive
• vapid
• pointless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WATERY)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to WATERY)

• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
  The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MALLEABLE
  Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• WATER DOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.