Wet

Adjective

 * 1) Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
 * I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
 * 1) Of weather or a day, rainy.
 * It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
 * 1) Made up of liquid or moisture.
 * Water is wet.
 * 1)  Of a person, ineffectual.
 * Don't be so wet.
 * 1)  Of a woman, sexually aroused.
 * He got me all wet.
 * 1)  Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
 * That guy's wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
 * 1)  Working with chemical or biological matter.
 * 2) Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
 * 3) * 1995, Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
 * The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.

Synonyms

 * damp, saturated, soaked
 * damp, raining, rainy
 * wetting
 * feeble, hopeless, useless
 * green, wet behind the ears

Antonyms

 * dry
 * dry
 * dry

Derived terms

 * all wet
 * wet bar
 * wet behind the ears


 * wet blanket
 * wetland
 * wet-look


 * wetware
 * wetwork

Noun

 * 1) Liquid or moisture.
 * 2) Rainy weather.
 * Don't go out in the wet.
 * 1)  A moderate Conservative.

Verb

 * 1)  To cover or impregnate with liquid.
 * 2)  To urinate accidentally in or on.
 * Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
 * 1)  To become wet

Derived terms

 * wet oneself
 * wet one's whistle
 * wet the baby's head
 * wetting

Adverbs for Wet
terribly; obnoxiously; unwholesomely; soppily; hopelessly; unseasonably; swampily; quaggily; mysteriously; strangely; disgustingly; unpleasantly; unhealthfully; utterly.

Thesaurus
Scotch mist, apish, asinine, asperge, batty, bedew, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bespatter, besprinkle, blood rain, bogginess, boggy, boozy, brainless, buffoonish, canned, cat-and-dog weather, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, dabble, daffy, daft, damp, dampen, dampish, dampness, dank, dash, dazed, deluge, dew, dewiness, dewy, dirty weather, disguised, dizzy, doting, douche, douse, draft, dram, drench, drenched, drink, dripping, drizzle, drop, drown, drunk, dumb, evening mist, exudation, fall, fatuitous, fatuous, fenny, fill, flaky, flurry, fogginess, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gargle, goofy, gout of rain, gulled, guzzle, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humor, idiotic, imbecile, impregnate, inane, inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irrigate, jigger, jolt, kooky, lave, libation, loony, mad, make water, marshiness, marshy, maudlin, mist, mistiness, misty rain, mizzle, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness, moisture, monsoon, moronic, muggy, nip, number one, nutty, paddle, patter, pee, pee-pee, peg, piddle, piss, pitter-patter, pixilated, plastered, potation, potion, precipitation, predominance of Aquarius, pull, pump bilge, rain, raindrop, rainfall, raininess, rains, rainwater, rainy, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, rinse, roric, roriferous, round, round of drinks, sappy, saturate, saturated, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sheet of rain, shot, shower, showeriness, silly, sip, slobber, slop, slosh, slug, snifter, snort, soak, soaked, soaking, sodden, soddenness, sogginess, soggy, sop, soppiness, sopping, soppy, souse, soused, sparge, spatter, spell of rain, spend a penny, splash, splatter, sponge, spot, spray, spring rains, sprinkle, stale, sticky, stormy weather, stupid, suck, sup, swampiness, swampy, swash, swig, swill, syringe, tacky, thoughtless, tot, undried, unfrozen hydrometeor, urinate, wacky, wash, water, wateriness, wee-wee, wet down, wet season, wet weather, wetness, wettish, wettishness, witless

Etymology
From wett:, past participle of  weten:, from  wætan:, from, from. Cognate with væta:. Compare also weet:, from  wæt:, from, related to  wiet:,  våt:,  våd:. More at.

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: nat
 * Albanian: qullur, lagur
 * Arabic:, مبتل
 * Armenian:
 * Balinese: belus
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: moll
 * Cebuano:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: cibitmek
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: mollado
 * Georgian: სველი, ნოტიო, ტენიანი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: βρεγμένος,, μουσκεμένος
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: humida


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 濡れた, 湿った
 * Korean: 젖다
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, ,  madidus
 * Latvian: slapjš
 * Lithuanian: šlapias
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: vátr, blautr
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: мокар
 * Slovak: mokrý, mokrá, mokré
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: basa
 * Telugu: తడి
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мокрий, вологий
 * Vietnamese: ướt


 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: წვიმიანი, ავდრიანი
 * Greek: βροχερός
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:


 * Latvian: drēgns
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: deževen
 * Ukrainian: дощовитий, дощовий


 * Armenian:
 * Crimean Tatar: cibitmek
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: nass, naß
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: ,
 * Irish:
 * Latvian: slapjš
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: våt, vätande
 * Telugu: తడి


 * Georgian: ცდებით, მცდარი, უაზრო, შეუსაბამო


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * : gleb


 * : gwlyb

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: natmaken
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: märjaks tegema, niisutama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: befeuchten, durchnässen, nass machen
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Korean: 적시다
 * Latvian: saslapināt
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: мочить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: namočiť, namočiť
 * Swedish: fukta, blöta, väta
 * Ukrainian:, змочувати


 * Armenian: տակն անել
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: nässen, nass machen
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 적시다
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: мочить
 * Slovak: močiť
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: թրջվել
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: nass werden
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: 濡れる


 * Korean: 젖다
 * Romanian: ,
 * Slovak: zmoknúť
 * Swedish: vätas
 * Ukrainian: змокнути, змокнуть


 * : glebiañ
 * : basah

Noun

 * 1) law (rule)
 * 2) law (body of rules declared and/or enforced by a government)
 * 3) law

Derived terms

 * grondwet
 * wetgever
 * wethouder
 * wettelijk