watery
/ˈwɔtəɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of water.
adj
Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
adj
Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
adj
adj
Containing many bodies of water.
Example Sentences
- "The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms."
- "European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River."
- "watery coffee"
- "Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery."
- "When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with."
- "I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes."
Etymology
From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: watery, wæteriġ, *watarīg
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɔtəɹi/
- British English: /ˈwɔːtəɹi/