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Watery vs Teary - What's the difference?

watery | teary |

As adjectives the difference between watery and teary

is that watery is wet, soggy or soaked with water while teary is of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.

watery

English

Alternative forms

* waterish (rare)

Adjective

(er)
  • Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
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  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • Diluted or having too much water.
  • (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
  • Weak and insipid.
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  • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=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. }}
  • Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
  • Tearful.
  • Anagrams

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    teary

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
  • No wonder Ryan was teary ; He missed his parents.
  • Of eyes, filled with tears.
  • Wade looked through his girlfriend's teary eyes.

    Synonyms

    * (person) * (eyes) tear-filled, wet

    Antonyms

    * (person) dry-eyed * (eyes) dry

    Derived terms

    * teary-eyed