water-washed

1. 1.

   washed or swept with water especially waves of the sea

   Similarinhospitable
2. 2.

   clean by virtue of having been washed in water

   Synonymswashed

   Similarclean

Questions about water-washed

What does water-washed mean?

water-washed means "washed or swept with water especially waves of the sea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in water-washed?

water-washed has 3 syllables: water--wa-shed. The stress falls on "water-".

What is another word for water-washed?

Close synonyms include washed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water-washed a common word?

water-washed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.