wet
Forms
- Comparative
- wetter
- Superlative
- wettest
- Plural
- wets
Definitions
1.Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
2.Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
- I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
- Parents and small children can stay cool and soaking wet at interactive water playgrounds.
3.Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
- But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
- A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
4.Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
1.Liquid or moisture.
- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
2.Rainy weather.
- Don't go out in the wet.
3.Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before the Wet had properly settled itself over the plains again.
- They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
4.A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2856
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).