wateryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːtəɹi/, /ˈwɔːtɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔtəɹi/
• (米国発音, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑtəɹi/

形容詞

watery (comparative waterier, superlative wateriest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
   • 2005, Robert L. Mott, Radio Sound Effects

     The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.

2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
   • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

3. Diluted or having too much water.
4. (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
5. Weak and insipid.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

6. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.

   I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes.

7. Tearful.

同意語

• (characteristic of water): waterish
  • See also Thesaurus:runny
  • aqueous, aquose
• (soaked with water): drenched, moist, waterlogged; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (having too much water): wishy-washy
• (weak, insipid): bland, flavorless (比喩的に); see also Thesaurus:insipid

派生語

• unwatery