watery
Use Watery in a sentence
tə adjective
1.
pertaining to or connected with water: watery Neptune.
2.
full of or abounding in water, as soil or a region; soggy; boggy.
3.
containing much or too much water: a watery paste; a watery batter.
4.
soft, soggy, tasteless, etc., due to excessive water or overcooking: watery vegetables; a watery stew.
5.
7.
resembling water in appearance or color: eyes of a watery blue.
8.
resembling water in fluidity and absence of viscosity: a watery fluid.
9.
of poor or weak quality; thin, washy, or vapid: watery prose.
10.
consisting of water: a watery grave.
11.
discharging, filled with, or secreting a waterlike morbid substance.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | relating to, consisting of, containing, or resembling water |
| 2. | discharging or secreting water or a water-like fluid: a watery wound |
| 3. | tearful; weepy |
| 4. | insipid, thin, or weak |
| 'wateriness | |
| —n | |
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Medical Dictionary
watery wa·ter·y (wô'tə-rē)
adj. wa·ter·i·er, wa·ter·i·est
Filled with, consisting of, or soaked with water; wet or soggy.
Secreting or discharging water or watery fluid, especially as a symptom of disease.
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Example sentences
The frogs attach their eggs to the sides of the pitcher, and the tadpoles grow in the watery liquid inside the plant.
The frogs attach their eggs to the sides of the pitcher, and the tadpoles grow in the watery liquid inside the plant.
But it does not avoid the watery fate that commonly befalls good cartoons that are dragged into the third dimension.
To my surprise and disappointment, it was a watery brew, with only a hint of chocolate flavor.
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