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watery

/ˈwɔtəɹi/ adjectif B2

En français : aqueux

  1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
  2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
  3. Diluted or having too much water. · watery coffee
  4. Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
  5. Weak and insipid.
  6. 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.
  7. Tearful.
  8. Containing many bodies of water.

Comparatif waterier · Superlatif wateriest

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Dans la bibliothèque

You don’t think much about romance when you have just escaped from a watery grave.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 224 · C1
As we reached it the fog was lifting, and a thin, watery sunshine was breaking through.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 17 · B2
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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 74 · C1

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