Entry Word: wet

Function: adjective

Meaning: containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water <I left the car windows open while it rained, and the seats got all wet>

Synonyms awash, bathed, doused, drenched, dripping, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, soppy, soused, washed, watered, waterlogged, watery

Related Words deluged, drowned, flooded, inundated, overflowed; submerged, swamped; hydrated; dipped, dunked, splashed; aqueous; steeped; flushed, irrigated, laved, rinsed, sluiced; clammy, damp, dank, humid, moist

Near Antonyms waterproof, water-resistant, water-repellent, watertight; baked, dehydrated, freeze-dried; droughty, parched, sere, sunbaked, thirsty; wrung

Antonyms arid, dry, unwatered, waterless

2 marked by or abounding with rain <a wet and dreary day> — see rainy