wettest

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

Example Sentences

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wettest

Rain is forecast to start Saturday night across Southern California, but Sunday is expected to be the wettest day of the weekend with widespread but light rainfall measuring less than a quarter inch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The winter of 1982-83 was California’s wettest in 131 years of record-keeping, according to Alex Tardy, a former meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Next week there is going to be more rain in the forecast, and again the north-west will probably end up being the wettest area.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Attention is now turning to July, the wettest month of India's monsoon season.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The highest population densities of Aborigines were in Australia’s wettest and most productive regions: the Murray-Darling river system of the Southeast, the eastern and northern coasts, and the southwestern corner.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond