Wet vs Miserable - What's the difference?
wet | miserable |
Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
Of weather or a time period, rainy.
* Milton
Made up of liquid or moisture.
(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.
(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
(fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
* This pen's a wet writer, so it'll feather on this cheap paper.
(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Covered in a sauce.
* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372
* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10
* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13
Liquid or moisture.
* Milton
Rainy weather.
(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To urinate accidentally in or on.
To become wet
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
*, chapter=7
, title= * (George Bernard Shaw) (1856–1950)
*:The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
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Wretched; worthless; mean.
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(lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What's more miserable than discontent?
(lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
:(Hooker)
As adjectives the difference between wet and miserable
is that wet is of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid while miserable is in a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.As a noun wet
is liquid or moisture.As a verb wet
is to cover or impregnate with liquid.wet
English
Adjective
(wetter)- I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .
- It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
- wet October's torrent flood
- Water is wet .
- Don't be so wet .
- He got me all wet .
- That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.
- the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
- The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
- (Prior)
- A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
- The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.
- But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
Synonyms
* (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichangaAntonyms
* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dryDerived terms
* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetworkSee also
* moistNoun
(en noun)- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
- Don't go out in the wet .
- ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’
Verb
- Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
Derived terms
* wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wettingmiserable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}