- 1covered 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).
- 2(of weather, etc.) 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(of paint, ink, etc.) not yet dry Keep off! Wet paint.
- 4if a child or its diaper is wet, its diaper is full of urine
adverb Her clothes were clinging wetly to her body. Thesauruswet
- moist
- damp
- soaked
- drenched
- saturated
- wet covered with or full of liquid, especially water:The car skidded on the wet road. You'll get wet (= in the rain) if you go out now.
- moist slightly wet, often in a way that is pleasant or useful:a rich, moist cake
- damp slightly wet, often in a way that is unpleasant:The cabin was cold and damp.
- soaked (somewhat informal) very wet:You're soaked through! (= completely wet)
- drenched very wet:We got caught in the storm and were drenched to the skin.
- Both of these words can be used with with or in:soaked/drenched with/in sweat/blood. Soaked, but not usually drenched, can also be used before a noun:their soaked clothes their drenched clothes
- saturated very wet:The ground is completely saturated: it would be pointless to plant anything.
- wet/moist/damp/soaked/drenched/saturated with something
- soaked/drenched in something
- somebody's coat/shirt/shoes/clothes/hair is/are wet/damp/soaked/drenched
- wet/moist/damp/saturated ground/soil
noun [uncountable]Idioms
completely wrong
to start doing something that is new for you At that time he was a young actor, just getting his feet wet.
young and without much experience synonym naive He was still wet behind the ears, politically.See wet in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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