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

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1. wateryadjective

   filled with water

   "watery soil"

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

   Antonyms:
   dry, solid, undiluted, gaseous

2. reeking, wateryadjective

   wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears

   "wiped his reeking neck"

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

   Antonyms:
   gaseous, dry, undiluted, solid

3. wateryadjective

   relating to or resembling or consisting of water

   "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

   Synonyms:
   washy, weak, reeking

   Antonyms:
   dry, undiluted, solid, gaseous

4. watery, washy, weakadjective

   overly diluted; thin and insipid

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

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

   Antonyms:
   dry, solid, gaseous, undiluted

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1. inviscidadjective

   opposite (antonym) of 'viscous'

   gas bubbles rise faster through inviscid fluids

   Submitted by dwspurpose on August 4, 2023  

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1. wateryadjective

   Synonyms:
   aqueous, wet, moist

2. wateryadjective

   Synonyms:
   thin, weak, diluted, waterish, like water

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1. wateryadjective

   Synonyms:
   aqueous, ichorous, serous, sanious

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1. List of paraphrases for "watery":

   aqueous, liquid

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How to use watery in a sentence?

1. Tommy Schaefer:

   I couldn't see for a moment because my eyes were so watery and I was distraught, I was in a state of mind, I had no idea what was happening. I was almost about to black out. And I grabbed it and I started swinging.

2. Allen Ginsberg:

   No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

3. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard:

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

4. Jim Denes:

   I was just miserable. I was trying to cough up stuff, I couldn’t, my eyes were all runny and watery.

5. Jim Denes:

   My eyes were all runny and watery.