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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Watery \Wa"ter*y\, a. [AS. w[ae]terig.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. ``The
        watery god.'' --Dryden. ``Fish within their watery
        residence.'' --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
        watery humors.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
        tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Watery \Wa"ter*y\, a. [AS. w[ae]terig.]
     1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. ``The
        watery god.'' --Dryden. ``Fish within their watery
        residence.'' --Milton.
  
     2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
  
     3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
        watery humors.
  
              The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
  
     4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
        tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  watery
       adj 1: filled with water; "watery soil"
       2: wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood
          or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: reeking, dripping]
       3: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery
          eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn: liquid,
           swimming]
       4: relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery
          grave"
       5: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery
          milk"; "weak tea" [syn: washy, weak]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     a.
     Resembling or characteristic of water.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     a.
     Resembling or characteristic of water.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     a.
     Resembling or characteristic of water.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     a.
     Resembling or characteristic of water.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     Englanti a.
     1 vetinen
     2 kalpea, heikko (valosta)
     3 itkuinen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  watery
     Engelska a.
     vattnig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  مائي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  watery //ˈwɑtəɹi// //ˈwɔtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtɹi// 
  1. воднист, разводнен
  diluted or having too much water
  2. воден
  resembling or characteristic of water
  3. мокър, подгизнал
  wet, soggy or soaked with water

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/ 
  vodnatý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/ 
  vodový

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  wässerig, wässrig  [med.]
   see: watery eyes
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  wässerig, wässrig  [cook.]
           Note: Geschmack
        "a watery soup"  - eine wässrige Suppe
        "a watery wine"  - ein wässriger Wein
           Note: of a taste

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  wässrig verschwommen 
        "a watery smile"  - ein verschwommenes Lächeln
     Synonym: aqueous
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  schlabberig 
           Note: oder schlabbrig
   see: baggy, loose
  
           Note: consistency of food

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  
  υγρός, βουρκωμένος, νερουλός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  watery //ˈwɑtəɹi// //ˈwɔtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtɹi// 
  1. vetinen
  diluted or having too much water
  2. vuotava
  discharging water or similar
  3. kelmeä
  of light: thin and pale
  4. vesimäinen, vettä muistuttava
  resembling or characteristic of water
  5. ponneton
  weak and insipid
  6. läpimärkä
  wet, soggy or soaked with water

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  pun vode, voden, vodnjikav

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  1. vizes
  2. híg
  3. nedves
  4. vízi
  5. ízetlen
  6. vizenyôs
  7. erôtlen
  8. tengeri
  9. víz ízû
  10. könnyes

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  watery //ˈwɑtəɹi// //ˈwɔtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtɹi// 
  水っぽい
  wet, soggy or soaked with water

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  watery /ˈwɔ:tərɪ/ 
   1.  wodnisty
   2.  niemrawy

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/ 
  1. aquático
  2. aquoso

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  watery //ˈwɑtəɹi// //ˈwɔtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtəɹi// //ˈwɔːtɹi// 
  vattnig, blöt, sur, våt
  wet, soggy or soaked with water

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  watery /wˈɔːtəɹi/
  1. sulu, suya ait
  2. sulak, suyu bol
  3. su gibi, suya benzer
  4. tatsız, lezzetsiz
  5. zayıf, sudan.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈwɔtɝi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  171 Moby Thesaurus words for "watery":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, airy, anemic, aquatic, aqueous,
     ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, banal, bland, bloodless,
     boyish, changeable, dead, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted,
     dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, excretory, exiguous, fade, fine,
     fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, flowing, fluent,
     fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary,
     frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly,
     halfhearted, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, impoverished, inane,
     indecisive, indifferent, infirm of purpose, infirm of will,
     insipid, insubstantial, irresolute, jejune, juicy, lachrymal,
     lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, lacy,
     lean, light, limited, liquid, liquidy, meager, mean, mild,
     milk-and-water, milky, miserly, misty, mushy, namby-pamby, narrow,
     neutral, niggardly, pallid, paltry, papery, pappy, parsimonious,
     plashy, poor, pulpy, puny, rare, rarefied, rheumy, runny, salivant,
     salivary, salivous, sapless, sappy, savorless, scant, scanty,
     scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, secretional, secretive, secretory,
     seminal, serous, sialagogic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slenderish,
     slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, sloppy, small, spare,
     sparing, spermatic, spiceless, splashy, stale, starvation, stingy,
     stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, succulent,
     svelte, swashy, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
     thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unflavored,
     unnourishing, unnutritious, unsavory, vague, vapid, washy,
     wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watering, waterish, weak,
     willowy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 水的,潮湿的,淡的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 水的,潮湿的,平淡的,稀薄的,水淋淋的,松软的

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