English Dictionary

wet

IPA（発音記号）

/wɛt/

形容詞

俗語 卑語 イギリス英語 レトロニム 古語 婉語 口語

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. / Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

日本語の意味

液体または水分を含んでいる状態 / 物体が液体で覆われている、または染み込んでいる状態

I left my wet umbrella on the porch and hoped it would dry by morning.

濡れた傘を縁側に置いたまま、朝までに乾くことを願った。

意味（1）

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

Water is wet.

意味（2）

Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.

意味（3）

Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.

意味（4）

Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.

意味（5）

Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.

意味（6）

Of weather or a time period: rainy.

It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

意味（7）

(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.

This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.

意味（8）

(slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.

That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.

意味（9）

(slang, vulgar) (of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.

He got me all wet.

意味（10）

(Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.

Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college …

意味（11）

(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.

The wet states would be the greatest beneficiaries because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.

意味（12）

(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

[…] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]

意味（13）

(biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.

意味（14）

(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed

意味（15）

(slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".

a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff

意味（16）

(dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.

The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.

wetter （ comparative ）

wettest （ superlative ）