Antonyms for wettish

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wet

Phonetic Transcription : wɛt

Definition of wettish

Origin : Old English wætan "to be wet;" see wet (adj.). Related: Wetted; wetting.

As in damp : adj wet, humid
As in dank : adj clammy

Example sentences :

The latter were none the worse for their ducking, except that their clothes were wettish.
Extract from : « Salt Water » by W. H. G. Kingston

No one would wish to imply by this that they are wettish customers.
Extract from : « Life in a Railway Factory » by Alfred Williams

She gave her clean but wettish hand a hasty wipe with her apron, and took the card.
Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade

And t' mist war low on t' fells, and I sat oonder t' wall, wettish and broodin' like.
Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Mercifully our ship was handy, so we got our tents and slept warm, though all our things were wettish.
Extract from : « Letters from Mesopotamia » by Robert Palmer

The walk certainly was wettish, and as I had had nothing to eat or drink since my midday meal, I was miserable and desponding.
Extract from : « The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford » by Mark Rutherford

It was then covered with a wettish linen cloth, upon which was laid the hardening skin, a piece of dry half-tanned horse hide.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 1 » by Various

Synonyms for wettish

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