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Wet Completely Clothes Grass Rain Soaking Car Young

Word wet
WordType (adjective)
Phonetic BrE / wet / NAmE / wet /
Example
  • wet clothes
  • wet grass
  • you'll get wet (= in the rain) if you go out now.
  • try not to get your shoes wet.
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wet

(adjective)BrE / wet / NAmE / wet /
  1. covered with or containing liquid, especially water
    • wet clothes
    • wet 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).
    • The car had skidded on the wet road.
    • You’ll get wet (= in the rain) if you go out now.
    • a lovely rich moist cake
    • The cottage was cold and damp.
    • You’re soaked through! (= completely wet)
    • We were caught in the storm and came home drenched to the skin.
    • soaked/drenched with/in sweat/blood
    • their soaked clothes
    • The ground is completely saturated: it would be pointless to plant anything.
  2. with rain
    • a wet day
    • a wet climate
    • 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.
  3. not yet dry
    • Keep off! Wet paint.
  4. if a child or its nappy / diaper is wet, its nappy / diaper is full of urine
  5. lacking 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.

    Extra Examples

    • It’s still a little wet outside.
    • Mind you don’t get your feet wet.
    • The grass was wet with dew.
    • The weather may turn wet later on in the week.
    • We got soaking wet just going from the car to the house.
    • We were wet through and cold.
    • permanently wet conditions
    • Her hair was still dripping wet.
    • My shirt was wet through.
    • The car had skidded in the wet road.
    • We were all soaking wet.
    • What’s the best thing to do with young children on a wet day?
    • You’ll get wet if you go out now.

    Word Origin

    • Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water.
Copyright This card's content is collected from the following dictionaries: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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