wetter

ADJECTIVE

damp, moist

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dank foggy humid misty muggy rainy slippery snowy soaked sodden soggy stormy

STRONG

drenched dripping drizzling moistened pouring raining saturate saturated soaking sopping soused teeming

WEAK

aqueous clammy dewy showery slimy slushy soppy teary water-logged watery wringing-wet

Antonyms

STRONGEST

arid clear dry

WEAK

dehydrated

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wetter

The rover has found chemical traces left behind by this wetter period, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

While El Niño brings colder and wetter conditions to the Southern U.S., it typically generates drier and warmer weather up north.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

This period, known as the middle Holocene, came thousands of years after the last Ice Age and was generally wetter than today.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

But while spring and early summer have been relatively dry for much of the country - with temperatures regularly exceeding 30C - winter was much wetter than usual.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

It grew colder and wetter as he went deeper in.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell