watery
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- adjective
- /ˈwɔːtəri/
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- She noticed that the juice was quite watery and did not have the usual sweetness.
- thin and watery
But The thing is, it's kind of watery compared to the concealers.
- But The thing is, it's kind of watery compared to the concealers.
- Or maybe it's the aspirational tofu press, which, as the package promises, will make my tofu less watery and more likely for my children to eat it.
- It kind of has a very similar feel to the Clinique Moisture Surge, which is feels a lot more like hydrating and like watery.
Examples
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I'm always annoyed when a black eyeliner just goes on looking watery and this does not do that.
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Someone held a spoonful of cold, watery lentil soup from the college canteen before his lips.
Fiction book (1990) -
But it's such a thin, watery formula.
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Perhaps the common factor is a weak and watery thing rather than an essential thing.
Blog text (6) -
So we have, we got kind of this, this watery slurry down the bottom from the water table.
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Every morning in the famous Jugendstil restaurant, they served us watery orange squash.
Fiction book (1994) -
Professor Baum swallowed the watery soup while David recited his assignments from the previous day.
Fiction book (1997) -
The soup was too watery, lacking the rich flavor we were expecting.
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After the heavy rain, the garden was left with watery puddles that took hours to dry up.
Synonyms
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More liquid than normal so it flows or drips easily
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Not strong in taste, thin and watery
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Containing water or made with water, like a liquid mix
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Thin and watery, like a sauce or paint that does not stick
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Weak in taste, like watered-down tea
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It has a thin, clear liquid and the light taste of meat or vegetables
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Etymology
Watery comes from water plus the ending -y, so it can also mean 'too full of water' and therefore 'weak' or 'thin'. So when soup, coffee, or a sauce has too much water and loses flavour, we call it watery because it is like plain water.