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# watery

«watery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Containing too much water; thin and weak: watery soup** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (watery, waterier, wateriest – usually «more watery»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Containing too much water; thin and weak: watery soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#m1)

2) Full of water or wet: watery eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#m2)

3) Pale, weak in colour or light: a watery sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#m3)

4) Like water or connected with water: a watery grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking: watery sauces or tea are too thin. In health: watery eyes in hay fever or a cold. In stories and descriptions: a watery sun in winter, «a watery grave» (drowning at sea). Phrases: «watery eyes», «watery soup», «a watery smile».

### examples

- The soup was watery and tasteless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x1)
- My eyes go watery when I chop onions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x2)
- A watery sun peeped through the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x3)
- She gave a watery smile through her tears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x4)
- The paint was too watery to cover the paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x5)
- The pirates were sent to a watery grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x6)
- Pleasure-boats, with their swelling sails, skim lightly over the watery mirror, like white butterflies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/#x7)

### note

Comparative: usually «more watery», sometimes «waterier». A watery smile is a weak, tearful one. Related: «waterproof», «watertight» have different meanings.

### In the corpora

- [Cheese-makers add bacteria and rennet to milk, which separates into solid curds and watery whey; the curds become cheese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.