Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wet
1 sense of wet
Sense 1
moisture, wet -- (wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window")
=> wetness -- (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water); "he confirmed the wetness of the swimming trunks")
Antonyms of verb wet
1 of 2 senses of wet
Sense 1
wet -- (cause to become wet; "Wet your face")
Antonym of dry (Sense 1)
=> dry, dry out -- (remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wet
2 senses of wet
Sense 1
wet -- (cause to become wet; "Wet your face")
=> change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")
Sense 2
wet -- (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed")
=> make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water -- (eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug")
Antonyms of adj wet
6 senses of wet
Sense 1
wet (vs. dry) -- (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather")
dry (vs. wet) -- (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry")
=> adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked -- (dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats")
=> air-dried -- (made dry by contact with unheated air)
=> air-dry -- (not giving off moisture on exposure to the air)
=> arid, waterless -- (lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross")
=> bone-dry (prenominal), bone dry (predicate) -- (without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone; "bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard"; "a drier to get the clothes bone dry")
=> desiccated, dried-out -- (thoroughly dried out; "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split")
=> dried -- (not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears")
=> dried-up -- (depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole")
=> dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered -- ((used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines")
=> dry-shod -- (having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; "a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod")
=> kiln-dried -- (dried in a kiln)
=> rainless -- (lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies")
=> semiarid -- (somewhat arid; "a semiarid region with little annual rainfall")
=> semi-dry -- (somewhat dry; "swabbing left the deck semi-dry but still slippery")
=> thirsty -- (needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky")
Sense 2
wet (vs. dry) -- (containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint")
dry (vs. wet) -- (lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint")
Sense 3
wet (vs. dry) -- (supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county")
dry (vs. wet) -- (opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state")
Sense 4
wet (vs. dry), lactating -- (producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows")
dry (vs. wet) -- (not producing milk; "a dry cow")
=> milkless -- (having no milk; "milkless breasts")
Sense 5
wet -- (consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen")
INDIRECT (VIA alcoholic) -> nonalcoholic -- (characterized by the absence of alcohol; "nonalcoholic beverages")
Sense 6
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet -- (very drunk)
INDIRECT (VIA intoxicated) -> sober -- (not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Similarity of adj wet
6 senses of wet
Sense 1
wet (vs. dry) -- (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather")
=> bedewed, dewy -- (wet with dew)
=> besprent -- (sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops")
=> boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged -- ((of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous")
=> clammy, dank -- (unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests")
=> damp, dampish, moist -- (slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears")
=> sodden, soppy -- (wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes")
=> drippy, drizzly -- (wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day")
=> humid -- (containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather")
=> misty -- (wet with mist; "the misty evening")
=> muggy, steamy, sticky -- (hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather")
=> reeking, watery -- (wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck")
=> rheumy -- (moist, damp, wet (especially of air); "the raw and theumy damp of night air")
=> sloppy -- (wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer")
=> showery, rainy -- ((of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days")
=> steaming, steamy -- (filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steamy towels")
=> sticky -- (moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time")
=> tacky -- ((of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish")
=> undried -- (still wet or moist)
=> washed -- (wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination; "rain-washed")
=> watery -- (filled with water; "watery soil")
Sense 2
wet (vs. dry) -- (containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint")
Sense 3
wet (vs. dry) -- (supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county")
Sense 4
wet (vs. dry), lactating -- (producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows")
=> fresh -- (having recently calved and therefore able to give milk; "the cow is fresh")
Sense 5
wet -- (consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen")
=> alcoholic (vs. nonalcoholic) -- (characteristic of or containing alcohol; "alcoholic drinks")
Sense 6
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet -- (very drunk)
=> intoxicated (vs. sober), drunk, inebriated -- (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated")
