1. A chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved
   "wetters are commonly used in detergents to help remove oil and grease";
   - wetting agent, surfactant, surface-active agent
    
2. A workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
   "The wetter carefully applied moisture to the clay before it was shaped on the pottery wheel"
    
3. Someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed
   "The child was embarrassed about being a bed wetter";
   - bedwetter, bed wetter

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"

Derived forms: wetters

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: chemical agent, urinator, working person

Antonym: dry

Encyclopedia: Wetter, Ruhr