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WATERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does watery mean?
• WATERY (adjective)
The adjective WATERY has 4 senses:
1. filled with water
2. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
3. relating to or resembling or consisting of water
4. overly diluted; thin and insipid
Familiarity information: WATERY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with water
Context example:
watery soil
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
wateriness (the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
Synonyms:
reeking; watery
Context example:
wiped his reeking neck
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
wateriness (the property of resembling the viscosity of water)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or resembling or consisting of water
Context example:
a watery color
Similar:
liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)
Derivation:
water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
wateriness (the property of resembling the viscosity of water)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Overly diluted; thin and insipid
Synonyms:
Context example:
weak tea
Similar:
dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)
Derivation:
wateriness (the property of resembling the viscosity of water)
wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))
Context examples
A benign, usually bilateral neoplasm of the ovary characterized by the presence of cystic structures that contain watery fluid and are lined by serous epithelial cells.
(Ovarian Serous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Symptoms include itching and discomfort in the eye, watery eyes, eye pain and discharge, and blurring vision.
(Eye Infection, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of a few large cysts and is composed of glycogen-rich epithelial cells which produce a watery fluid.
(Pancreatic Macrocystic Serous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is composed of glycogen-rich epithelial cells which produce a watery fluid.
(Pancreatic Serous Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of cysts and is composed of glycogen-rich malignant epithelial cells which produce a watery fluid.
(Pancreatic Serous Cystadenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The most common symptom of crypto is watery diarrhea.
(Cryptosporidiosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Patients present with chronic watery diarrhea.
(Collagenous Colitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Charles looked on wistfully, wiped his watery eyes, but did not get up because of his stiffness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In humans the parasite infests the intestinal tract and may cause watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, nausea and vomiting.
(Coccidiosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Severe symptoms include profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps.
(Cholera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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