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Sopping vs Soaking - What's the difference?

sopping | soaking |

As adjectives the difference between sopping and soaking

is that sopping is soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping while soaking is extremely wet; saturated.

As verbs the difference between sopping and soaking

is that sopping is present participle of lang=en while soaking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun soaking is

immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

sopping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
    • By now he was sopping wet so there was no point in putting on his hat.

    Verb

    (head)

    • soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 5.