Definitions for: Watery


[adj] overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"
[adj] relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery grave"
[adj] filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
[adj] wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"
[adj] filled with water; "watery soil"



Webster (1913) Definition: Wa"ter*y, a. [AS. w[ae]terig.]
1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. ``The
watery god.'' --Dryden. ``Fish within their watery
residence.'' --Milton.

2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
watery humors.

The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
--Arbuthnot.

4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

Synonyms: dilute, diluted, dripping, liquid, reeking, swimming, tearful, washy, weak, wet

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