Wet a. [Compar. Wetter superl. Wettest.]
1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. “Wet cheeks.”
2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. “Wet October's torrent flood.”
3. Chem. Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang]
Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.
Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]
Syn: -- Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty.
wet
adj 1: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet
bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet
weather" [ant: dry]
2: supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of
alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet
platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
3: producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow";
"lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]
4: consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo";
"a wet canteen"
5: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked,
cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated,
plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked,
soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley,
tight, tipsy]
n : wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the
window" [syn: moisture]
v 1: cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry]
2: make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year
old boy still wets his bed"
[also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]