Antonyms for watery
ˈwɔ tə ri, ˈwɒt ə-wa·te·ry

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1. wateryadjective

   filled with water

   "watery soil"

   Antonyms:
   dry, solid, undiluted, gaseous

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

2. reeking, wateryadjective

   wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears

   "wiped his reeking neck"

   Antonyms:
   gaseous, dry, undiluted, solid

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

3. wateryadjective

   relating to or resembling or consisting of water

   "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

   Antonyms:
   dry, undiluted, solid, gaseous

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

4. watery, washy, weakadjective

   overly diluted; thin and insipid

   "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

   Antonyms:
   dry, solid, gaseous, undiluted

   Synonyms:
   weak, infirm, unaccented, weakly, debile, rickety, bleached, washy, faded, reeking, imperfect, washed-out, faint, decrepit, light, fallible, frail, feeble, sapless

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1. wateryadjective

   Synonyms:
   aqueous, ichorous, serous, sanious

How to use watery in a sentence?

1. Jim Denes:

   My eyes were all runny and watery.

2. Shakespeare A Lover's Complaint 279:

   This said, his watery eyes he did dismount, Whose sights till then were levell'd on my face; Each cheek a river running from a fount With brinish current downward flow'd apace: O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!

3. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard:

   Officers spoke to Mr. Shepard, and they smelled alcohol and had bloodshot watery eyes.

4. Tommy Schaefer:

   She squeezed my neck for about 20 to 30 seconds. I couldn't breathe. I had blood going to my head and my eyes were so watery.

5. Luther Beegle:

   We’re getting really cool spectra of materials formed in aqueous [watery] environments – for example sulfate and carbonate, once we get over closer to the delta, where there should be really good preservation potential for signs of life, we’ve got a really good chance of seeing something if it’s there.

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