Wet Weather Young Adjective Clothes/Hair/Grass Rain Shoes Face

• wet clothes/hair/grass
• you'll get wet (= in the rain) if you go out now.
• try not to get your shoes wet.
• his face was wet with tears.

wet

1. covered with or containing liquid, especially water
• wet clothes/hair/grass
• You'll get wet (= in the rain) if you go out now.
• Try not to get your shoes wet.
• His face was wet with tears.
• We were all soaking wet (= extremely wet).
• Her hair was still dripping wet.
• My shirt was wet through (= completely wet).

Extra Examples

• Mind you don't get your feet wet.
• The grass was wet with dew.
• We got soaking wet just going from the car to the house.
• We were wet through and cold.
• The car had skidded in the wet road.
2. with rain
• a spell of cold, wet weather
• a wet climate
• What's the best thing to do with young children on a wet day?
• It's wet outside.
• It's going to be wet tomorrow.
• It was the wettest October for many years.
• The weather will be wet and windy in the south.

Extra Examples

• It's still a little wet outside.
• The weather may turn wet later on in the week.
• permanently wet conditions
3. not yet dry
• Keep off! Wet paint.
4. if a child or its nappy is wet, its nappy is full of urine
5. not having a strong character
• SYNONYM feeble
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/feeble
• ‘Don't be so wet,’ she laughed.
6. completely wrong
7. to start doing something that is new for you
• At that time he was a young actor, just getting his feet wet.
8. young and without much experience
• SYNONYM naive
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/naive
• He was still wet behind the ears, politically.

Word Origin

• Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water.