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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That came shortly after one of the UK's wettest winters on record in 2023-24, which triggered widespread flooding.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

His www.weathertrends360.com External link forecasts show that “This year we have it even wetter, and by late Summer-Fall we have it the wettest for the U.S. in 8 years.”

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

The Met Office said this season for Cornwall, Devon and Dorset ranks in the top five of the wettest winters since records began.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Out of nearly 260 years of records, six out of the ten wettest winter half-years - the period from October to March - have been since the year 2000.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 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