Definitions for watery

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watery wa·ter·y

Spelling: [waw-tuh-ree, wot-uh-]

IPA: /ˈwɔ tə ri, ˈwɒt ə-/

Watery is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in watery (aertwy).

Definitions for watery

adjective

1. pertaining to or connected with water:
2. full of or abounding in water, as soil or a region; soggy; boggy.
3. containing much or too much water:
4. soft, soggy, tasteless, etc., due to excessive water or overcooking:
5. tearful.
6. of the nature of water:
7. resembling water in appearance or color:
8. resembling water in fluidity and absence of viscosity:
9. of poor or weak quality; thin, washy, or vapid:
10. consisting of water:
11. discharging, filled with, or secreting a waterlike morbid substance.

Origin of watery

before 1000; Middle English; Old English wæterig. See water, -y¹

Examples for watery

The Indians had not been able to draw them from their watery grave, and obtain their scalps.

Serifluus means flowing with serum, the watery part of milk.

Take out the meat as whole as possible, split the tail, and remove the gut; and if the inside be not watery, it may be added.

It depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance.

He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

In Ring, Sadako, the protagonist had died in a well, and returns from the watery grave to haunt the living.

Tall, dark, and handsome with an olive complexion and watery blue eyes, Loeb comes from a well-heeled family.

He had a watery feeling, as if just arising from a long illness.

The bullets of the enemy made "watery flashes" on all sides.

When multiple cases of watery diarrhea spread through one village, doctors feared it was cholera.