1. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
   "wet weather"; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet pavements"
    
2. Containing moisture or volatile components
   "wet paint"
    
3. [N. Amer] Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
   "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county"
    
4. Producing or secreting milk
   "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow";
   - lactating
    
5. Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
   "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
    
6. [informal] Very drunk
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
    
7. [Brit, informal] Lacking in power or forcefulness
   "His wet handshake didn't inspire confidence";
   - ineffective, ineffectual, unable, effete, pathetic, useless [informal]
    
8. [informal] (of a woman) sexually excited with a wet vagina
   "She was wet with anticipation"

1. Cause to become wet
   "Wet your face"
    
2. Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
   "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"

1. Wetness caused by water
   "drops of wet gleamed on the window";
   - moisture
    
2. [UK, informal] A person who is physically weak and ineffectual
   "The school bully often targeted the perceived wet in the class";
   - weakling, doormat, wuss, wussy [informal], weed [UK, informal]
    
3. [UK, informal] A moderate Conservative
   "Some party members considered him a wet due to his centrist policies"

Sounds like: were, whirrr, we

Derived forms: wetting, wet, wets, wetter, wetted, wettest

See also: alcoholic, bedewed, besprent [archaic], boggy, clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, drippy, drizzly, drunk, fresh, gone, humid, impotent, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, marshy, miry, misty, mizzly, moist, mucky, muddy, muggy, quaggy, rainy, reeking, rheumy, ripped [informal], showery, skunked [informal], sloppy, sloughy, sodden, soggy, soppy [N. Amer, informal], squashy, squelchy, steaming, steamy, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, washed, waterlogged, watery, wetness, wettish

Type of: alter, change, individual, make water [archaic], micturate [formal], modify, mortal, pass water, pee [informal], pee-pee [informal], person, piddle [informal], relieve oneself [informal], somebody, someone, soul, spend a penny [Brit, informal], take a leak [informal], urinate, wee [Brit, informal], wee-wee [informal], wetness, widdle [Brit, informal]

Antonym: dry

Encyclopedia: Wet