watery
/ˈwɔtəɹi/ adjective B2- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Diluted or having too much water. · watery coffee
- Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Weak and insipid.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc. · I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes.
- Tearful.
- Containing many bodies of water.
Comparative waterier · Superlative wateriest
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You don’t think much about romance when you have just escaped from a watery grave.
As we reached it the fog was lifting, and a thin, watery sunshine was breaking through.
As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows, throwing watery patches of colour from the coats of arms which covered them.
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