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Synonyms for drenched

  • adjective

Most common

soaked dripping soaking wet sodden wet saturated damp soggy

All synonyms

Adjective

soaked, sodden, dripping, soaking wet, wet, saturated, soggy, damp, waterlogged, drunk, watery, besotted, soppy, squidgy, thone, plashy, bewatered, undried, moist, humid, maudlin, madid formal dated, soused slang

Antonyms

arid, parched

All antonyms of drenched →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Completely wet; sodden

    The storm's so bad that if you step outside for 20 seconds, you get drenched.

Example sentences

  • soaked It rained all night, and now everywhere is soaked.
  • dripping The rain was dripping through a leak in the roof.
  • sodden The way, sodden with rain, was extremely slippery.
  • wet Wet and stormy areas will get wetter and stormier.
  • saturated A wetland is an area of land that is saturated with water.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
drenchedrising
soakedrising
drippingrising
soddenrising
wetsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
wet1
4 letters
damp1
5 letters
drunk1, moist1, humid2, soggy2, soppy2, thone1, madid
6 letters
soaked1, watery3, sodden2, soused, plashy
7 letters
maudlin2, squidgy, undried
8 letters
dripping2, besotted3
9 letters
saturated4, bewatered
11 letters
waterlogged3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (humid2 = 2 syllables).