The Collaborative Dictionary

Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel. v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]137. See Water.] [1913 Webster]

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. "Wet cheeks." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

(Chem.) 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. [1913 Webster]

Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] --Prior. [1913 Webster] Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc. Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wet adj

1 covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]

2 supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]

3 producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]

4 consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"

5 very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy] n : wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture]

1 cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry]

2 make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed" [also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]

wetter

1 a substance capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved [syn: wetting agent, surfactant, surface-active agent]

2 a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process

3 someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed [syn: bedwetter, bed wetter]

wetter See wet

see Wetter

English

Adjective

wetter

1. comparative of wet

Noun

1. Agent noun of wet; someone who wets something as part of some process.
2. A wetting agent or surfactant.
3. A bedwetter.

West Frisian

Noun

1. water

Wetter may refer to:

• Wetter (Ruhr), a town in the Ruhr area, Germany
• Wetter, Hesse, a town in Hesse, Germany
• Wetter (river), a minor river in Hessen, Germany
• Wetter, the german word for weather

Wetter is the surname of:

• Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician
• Friedrich Cardinal Wetter, Archbishop of Munich