🌧️ Extremely wet 💎 Very stylish 💧 A drop sound 💧 A falling drop

dripping

4 1.5

Extremely wet so that water falls from clothes or hair

adverb
/ˈdrɪpɪŋ/

: empapado

After the rainstorm, I came home completely dripping from head to toe.

Get out of here, Carl be dripping wet.

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Examples

Obviously my hair is not dripping wet like it's damp, but comparing the difference from this to this, pretty good.
So she was dressed, that says, as a dripping wet version of herself.
He stepped out of the pool, feeling dripping and cold as the wind blew against his wet skin.
She returned from the beach, her clothes dripping with seawater.

Synonyms

soddenly

vsdripping

Archaic

1 8.2

In a very wet way, like clothes soaked by rain

is specifically the adverb form meaning extremely wet

Antonyms

dry

885 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

Compounds

dripping pan

4.6

A shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch fat and juices

How Wet

drenched

36 3.9

dripping

4 1.5

wet

16 1.0

damp

106 1.0

Surface Forms

dripping positive

Morphology

dripping = drip (transparent) = drip + ing

Present-participle formation from the verb 'drip' used adverbially to indicate being very wet; meaning is directly inferable from 'drip'.

Etymology

Dripping comes from the same root drip 'to fall in drops', and a helpful image is clothes so full of water that they are 'dripping' with it, which is why the phrase means extremely wet.