watery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite filled with water
    • watery soil
  2. adjective satellite wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
    reeking.
    • wiped his reeking neck
  3. adjective satellite relating to or resembling or consisting of water
    • a watery substance
    • a watery color
  4. adjective satellite overly diluted; thin and insipid
    washy; weak.
    • washy coffee
    • watery milk
    • weak tea

WordNet

Wa"ter*y adjective
Etymology
AS. wæterig.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913