The Collaborative Dictionary
Watery \Wa"ter*y\, a. [AS.
waeterig.] [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
"The watery god." --Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence."
--Milton. [1913 Webster]
Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. [1913
Webster]
Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a
liquid; as, watery humors. [1913 Webster] The oily and watery parts
of the aliment. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid
fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless. [1913 Webster]
Word Net
watery adj
1 filled with water; "watery soil"
2 wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as
sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn:
reeking,
dripping]
3 filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes";
"watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn:
liquid,
swimming]
4 relating to or resembling or consisting of
water; "a watery grave"
5 overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy
coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" [syn:
washy,
weak]
Moby Thesaurus
Lenten,
Spartan,
abstemious,
airy,
anemic,
aquatic,
aqueous,
ascetic,
attenuate,
attenuated,
austere,
banal,
bland,
bloodless,
boyish,
changeable,
dead,
delicate,
diaphanous,
dilute,
diluted,
dwarfed,
dwarfish,
ethereal,
excretory,
exiguous,
fade,
fine, fine-drawn,
finespun,
flat,
flavorless,
flimsy,
flowing,
fluent,
fluid,
fluidal,
fluidic,
fluxible,
fluxile,
fluxional,
fluxionary,
frail,
frugal,
gauzy,
girlish,
gossamer,
gracile,
gruelly,
halfhearted,
hydrated,
hydraulic,
hydrous,
impoverished,
inane,
indecisive,
indifferent, infirm of
purpose, infirm of will,
insipid,
insubstantial,
irresolute,
jejune,
juicy,
lachrymal,
lachrymose,
lacrimatory,
lactational,
lacteal,
lacteous,
lacy,
lean,
light,
limited,
liquid,
liquidy,
meager,
mean,
mild, milk-and-water,
milky,
miserly,
misty,
mushy, namby-pamby,
narrow,
neutral,
niggardly,
pallid,
paltry,
papery,
pappy,
parsimonious,
plashy,
poor,
pulpy,
puny,
rare,
rarefied,
rheumy,
runny,
salivant,
salivary,
salivous,
sapless,
sappy,
savorless,
scant,
scanty,
scrawny,
scrimp,
scrimpy,
secretional,
secretive,
secretory,
seminal,
serous,
sialagogic,
skimp,
skimpy,
slender,
slenderish,
slight, slight-made,
slim,
slimmish,
slinky,
sloppy,
small,
spare,
sparing,
spermatic,
spiceless,
splashy,
stale,
starvation,
stingy,
stinted,
straitened,
stunted,
subsistence,
subtle,
succulent,
svelte,
swashy,
sylphlike,
tasteless,
tenuous,
thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
thin-spun,
thinnish,
threadlike,
unflavored,
unnourishing,
unnutritious,
unsavory,
vague,
vapid,
washy, wasp-waisted,
watered, watered-down,
watering,
waterish,
weak,
willowy,
wiredrawn, wishy-washy,
wispy
English
Adjective
- wet, soggy or soaked with water
- diluted or having too
much water
- In the context of "of light": thin and pale therefore suggestive of water
- weak and insipid
- discharging water
or similar substance
as a result of disease
etc.
- tearful