Synonyms for watery
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Liquid — resembling or characteristic of water
liquid, runny, thin, aqueous, fluid, hydrous, waterish, fluent, aquose dated
2. Bland — weak and insipid
bland, flavorless US, flavourless UK, tasteless, insipid, vapid, unsavory US, unsavoury UK, savorless US, savourless UK, stale, unpalatable, mawkish dated
4. Teary — tearful
Definitions
- adj. 1
Resembling or characteristic of water.
- adj. 2
Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- adj. 3
Weak and insipid.
- adj. 4
Tearful.
Related words
- Word family
- wateriness
Example sentences
- liquid This transparent liquid contains a kind of poison.
- fluid I need to buy some correction fluid for tomorrow.
- runny This medicine will do wonders for a runny nose.
- bland This soup is somehow bland. Maybe add more salt...?
- flavorless This may be pilaf, but it's completely flavorless.
By length
- 3 letters
- wet1
- 4 letters
- weak1, thin1
- 5 letters
- fluid2, moist1, juicy2, bland1, stale1, runny2, teary2, washy2, vapid2
- 6 letters
- liquid2, fluent2, dilute2, serous, aquose, plashy
- 7 letters
- diluted3, watered2, aqueous3, insipid3, reeking2, mawkish2, hydrous2
- 8 letters
- drenched1, unsavory4, waterish
- 9 letters
- tasteless2, unsavoury, savorless
- 10 letters
- flavorless3, lachrymose3, savourless
- 11 letters
- unpalatable5, waterlogged3, flavourless
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fluid2 = 2 syllables).