watery /ˈwɔːtəɹi/adjective 8forms 2phrases 1 adjective8 •Resembling or characteristic of water.The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms. — 2005 •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. •Tearful. •Diluted or having too much water. •Weak and insipid.Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery. — 1929 •Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water. •Wet, soggy or soaked with water.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. — 2013 •Containing many bodies of water. formswaterier · wateriest Phrases with watery watery graveThe death (or loss of an inanimate object) due to drowning (sinking) in a body of water; or the underwater resting place of such a person or object.