wet

1. 1.

   cause to become wet

   “Wet your face”

   Antonymsdry

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerbedewdrenchmoistenwatersprinklesquirtdouse
2. 2.

   make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating

   “This eight year old boy still wets his bed”

   Broadermake

1. 1.

   wetness caused by water

   “drops of wet gleamed on the window”

   Synonymsmoisture

   Broaderwetness

Other forms of wet

plural

wets·

past tense or participle

wetted

present participle

wetting

comparative or superlative

wetter

comparative or superlative

wettest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wet

What does wet mean?

wet means "covered or soaked with a liquid such as water". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wet?

wet has 1 syllable: wet. In IPA it is /ˈwɛt/.

What is another word for wet?

Close synonyms include lactating, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked. 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.

What is the opposite of wet?

The recorded antonyms are dry, dry, dry, dry.

Is wet a common word?

wet is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wet?

2 words rhyme with wet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.