Usually means: Containing, covered with, or soaked.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word wet:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet, the wet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wet, the wet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wet, the wet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wet, wet: Wordnik
  7. wet, the wet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wet: Wiktionary
  9. wet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wet: Dictionary.com
  13. wet (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WET (WET Design), WET (Water Entertainment Technologies), WET (company), WET (video game), WET, Wet (Nicole Scherzinger song), Wet (Snoop Dogg song), Wet (album), Wet (band), Wet (disambiguation), Wet (magazine), Wet (video game), Wet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wet: Rhymezone
  19. wet, wet (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wet: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Wet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. wet: Free Dictionary
  24. wet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. wet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WET: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. wet: Idioms

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. wet, wet, wet, wet, wet, wet, wet, wet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Wet: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. wet: The Folk File
  6. Wet: A Seattle Lexicon
  7. The Wet, W.E.T: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. WET: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See wetly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
adjective:  Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
adjective:  Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
adjective:  Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
adjective:  Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
adjective:  Of weather or a time period: rainy.
adjective:  (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
adjective:  (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
adjective:  (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
adjective:  (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
adjective:  (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
adjective:  (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
adjective:  (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
adjective:  (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
adjective:  (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
adjective:  (dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
noun:  Liquid or moisture.
noun:  Rainy weather.
noun:  (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
noun:  (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
noun:  (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
noun:  (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
noun:  (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
noun:  (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
verb:  (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
verb:  (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
verb:  (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
adjective:  (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.
noun:  Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”) [A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.]
verb:  Misspelling of whet. [(transitive) To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.]

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