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" Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space."
Alan Huffman

Meaning of "watery" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF WATERY

ˈwɔːtərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Watery is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WATERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of watery in the English dictionary

The first definition of watery in the dictionary is relating to, consisting of, containing, or resembling water. Other definition of watery is discharging or secreting water or a water-like fluid. Watery is also tearful; weepy.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WATERY

artery · bijouterie · bootery · cautery · decretory · depletory · eaterie · eatery · electrocautery · excretory · mortary · neurosecretory · persecutory · Scutari · secretory · slaughtery · sparterie · Tartary · Tatary · unwatery

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATERY

waterproof · waterproofed · waterproofer · waterproofing · waterproofness · waterquake · waters · waterscape · watershed · waterside · watersider · watersmeet · waterspout · watertight · watertightness · waterway · waterweed · waterworks · waterworn · waterzooi

WORDS THAT END LIKE WATERY

adultery · baptistery · battery · buttery · cemetery · cheatery · coronary artery · flattery · fluttery · fratery · glittery · jittery · lottery · mastery · monastery · murder mystery · mystery · pottery · printery · upholstery

Synonyms and antonyms of watery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WATERY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «watery» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «watery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATERY

Find out the translation of watery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of watery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «watery» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

微弱的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

desvaído
570 millions of speakers
en

English

watery
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مائي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

водянистые
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

aguado
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

স্বাদহীন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pâle
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Berair
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

blass
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

淡い
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

옅은
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Watery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chảy nước
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தண்ணீரால்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पाणचट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

sulu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pallido
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wodnisty
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

водянисті
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

apos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υδαρής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

waterige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vattnig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vassen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of watery

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATERY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of watery
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «watery».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about watery

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «WATERY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word watery.
1
Alan Huffman
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATERY»

Discover the use of watery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to watery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Watery Part of the World
—The Seattle Times “The Watery Part of the VVorla' offers a glimpse of what it means to bring the two halves ofour story together—the part we tell each other and the part we don't. It might be the only way to cast off from that safe but isolated ...
Michael Parker, 2012
2
From A Watery Grave: The Discovery And Excavation Of La ...
An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.
James E. Bruseth, Toni S. Turner, 2005
3
Watery Ways (Large Print 16pt)
Trading life in the fast lane of Johannesburg for that of Rotterdam's serene Oude Haven, Valerie Poore packs all her worldly possessions aboard the historic Dutch barge Hoop and sets about rebuilding both the boat and her life after divorce ...
Valerie Poore, 2013
4
A Watery Grave
Full of the evocative maritime detail and atmosphere that have won her numerous awards for her nonfiction, Joan Druett's A Watery Grave is the mystery debut of a masterful maritime writer.
Joan Druett, 2013
5
Wet Pets and Other Watery Tales
All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to CRARL. The editors of the volume are volunteers, each with writing and publishing experience. Most of the 50 stories in the collection include photographs of the subjects described.
Hazel Weidman, Jacqueline Teare, 2003
6
A watery grave
Kim and Stella work to find the killer when a murder occurs in a household they are visiting.
Barbara Corcoran, 1982
7
Case of the Watery Grave, The (Detective)
Anne Schraff. Pasquale. I just moved here from Boston to go to school. I'm studying computer science—at my folks' insistence. But computers aren't really my thing. There's got to be something more interesting to do out there.” “Hello. I'm Kelly ...
Anne Schraff, 2009
8
Watery Grave
The legendary, blind eighteenth-century judge Sir John Fielding returns in his third mystery, in which he investigates the murder of a sea captain, possibly at the hands of his own stepson
Bruce Alexander, 1997
9
Medical Record
3 3-4 2-3 2-4 3 + + □Thin, watery, grayish white .... Thick, tenacious, mucopurulent.. Watery, grayish, suspended par- particles. Greenish yellow, thin, mucopuru- ' lent. Scant, grayish, thick secretion... Greenish yellow, mucopurulent. .. Thin ...
George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1908
10
The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
It is an itching which patients find it impossible to bear, and to obtain relief, therefore they scratch themselves most violently; the minute watery vesicles thus become broken, the contents escape, and you have a superficial incrustntion formed ...
‎1830

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term watery is used in the context of the following news items.
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A watery relay
Waylon Palm, right, passes a water soaked sponge over his head to his teammate, Samantha Hart, for Team Betsy during the first game of the 2015 Juniata ... «Lewistown Sentinel, Jul 15»
2
Sudan steps up border screening as watery diarrhoea emerges in S …
Sudan's National Ministry of Health has stepped up surveillance and screening at Khartoum International Airport and Joda checkpoint following reports of acute ... «Radio Tamazuj, Jul 15»
3
Asia's Watery Graveyard for Asylum Seekers
On the Andaman Sea, west of the Siam peninsula in Asia, a tragic scandal is unfolding. Thousands of Rohingya asylum seekers who had recently fled Myanmar ... «The Diplomat, May 15»
4
This Watery Graveyard Is the Resting Place for 161 Sunken …
In a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand, the broken remains of space stations and robotic freighters litter the ocean floor, four ... «Gizmodo, May 15»
5
The unexpectedly watery moons of our Solar System may be …
Secret oceans on the moons Enceladus and Ganymede were discovered within days of each other, reshaping our belief that the Earth is the Solar System's most ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
6
'Aqueous' brings watery images to Gallery Visio
Viewers of “Aqueous” by Caitlin Funston get the impression they're viewing colorful octopuses through large windows in the watery playground created by the ... «UMSL Daily, Feb 15»
7
Dot Earth | A Fresh Look at the Watery Side of Earth's Climate …
A fresh analysis of thousands of temperature measurements from deep-diving Argo ocean probes shows (yet again) that Earth is experiencing “unabated ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
8
Watery dwellings
TOILETS, shopping carts, washing machines and other assorted junk have been dumped into the sea to create habitats for marine organisms and the fish that ... «The Economist, Dec 14»
9
Sunken plane recovered from watery depths of Lake Murray
An amphibious plane that crashed in Lake Murray back in April was recovered from the watery depths of the lake on Wednesday. Dive shop owner John Baker ... «WIS, Oct 14»
10
Chris Doyle: Artist's new video awash in vivid, watery sensations
The natural woodland world, from its treetops to its watery depths, gets a shot of pop patterning and neon-bright coloration in Brooklyn artist Chris Doyle's recent ... «SFGate, Sep 14»
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