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. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard:

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

2. Rob Holden:

   We are testing as we go, but nonetheless we are treating acute watery diarrhea, it's the same as treating cholera. That's just the diagnosis.

3. 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.

4. Kristine Arthur:

   Sugar tends to pull fluid out of the GI tract, which can lead to loose, watery stools and diarrhea.

5. Jim Denes:

   My eyes were all runny and watery.