1. Adjective form
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.
2. Adjective form
Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
3. Adjective form
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. Adjective form
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
5. Adjective
Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
6. Adjective
Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
7. Adjective
A dram; a drink.
8. Verb form
of Wet
9. Verb
To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
10. Noun
wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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