What are the opposite words for dry?
Dry is an adjective that describes something that lacks moisture or wetness. However, there are several antonyms for the word "dry" that denote an abundance of moisture, dampness, or wetness. Some opposites of dry are wet, humid, damp, moist, soggy, and dampened. These antonyms describe conditions or things that have a high percentage of water or are saturated with it, such as a soaking wet towel, a humid climate, or a damp basement. Understanding the antonyms of dry can help you describe the opposite conditions and add more detail to your writing.
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change
- wet.
- oil
- immerse
-
occupy
- pre-occupied,
- am active with,
- am concerned with,
- are active with,
- are concerned with,
- art active with,
- art concerned with,
- be active with,
- be concerned with,
- being active with,
- being concerned with,
- held attention,
- hold attention,
- holding attention,
- holds attention,
- is active with,
- keep busy,
- keeping busy,
- keeps busy,
- kept busy,
- pre occupied,
- pre occupies,
- pre occupy,
- pre-occupies,
- pre-occupy,
- pre-occupying,
- was concerned with,
- wast concerned with,
- were active with,
- were concerned with,
- wert active with,
- wert concerned with.
- moisten
- liquefy
-
plunge
- nose dive,
- Careered,
- Careering,
- nose-dives,
- nose-diving,
- go whole hog,
- belly flopped,
- belly flopping,
- belly-flop,
- belly-flopped,
- belly-flopping,
- belly-flops,
- bellyflop,
- bellyflopped,
- bellyflopping,
- bellyflops,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends,
- go limit,
- go the limit,
- goes limit,
- goes whole hog,
- going limit,
- going the limit,
- going whole hog,
- nose dives,
- nose diving,
- nose dove,
- nose-dive,
- nose-dove,
- nosedived,
- nosediving,
- nosedove,
- shoot the works,
- shoot works,
- shooting the works,
- shooting works,
- shoots the works,
- shoots works,
- shot the works,
- shot works,
- take a flyer,
- take a header,
- take flyer,
- take header,
- takes a flyer,
- takes a header,
- takes flyer,
- takes header,
- taking a flyer,
- taking a header,
- taking flyer,
- taking header,
- threw oneself,
- throw oneself,
- throwing oneself,
- took a flyer,
- took a header,
- took flyer,
- took header,
- top pled,
- went limit,
- went the limit,
- went whole hog.
-
infuse
- breathe in to,
- breathe into,
- breathed in to,
- breathed into,
- breathes in to,
- breathes into,
- breathing in to,
- breathing into,
- in fused,
- in fuses,
- in fusing,
- in grain,
- in graining,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in stilled,
- in stilling,
- in vest,
- in vested,
- in vests,
- in-fuse,
- in-fused,
- in-fusing,
- in-grain,
- in-grained,
- in-graining,
- in-grains,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- in-stilled,
- in-stilling,
- in-vest,
- in-vested,
- in-vesting,
- in-vests.
- lubricate
-
dampen
- bedew,
- bedewed,
- besprinkle,
- humidify,
- Bedewing,
- Besprinkled,
- Besprinkling,
- Dulling,
- dulls,
- humidified,
- humidifying,
- humidifies,
- besprinkles,
- be dew,
- be dewed,
- be dewing,
- be dews,
- be sprinkle,
- be sprinkled,
- be sprinkles,
- be sprinkling,
- be-dew,
- be-dewed,
- be-dewing,
- be-dews,
- be-sprinkle,
- be-sprinkled,
- be-sprinkles,
- be-sprinkling,
- bedews,
- de aden,
- de adens,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de-aden,
- de-adens,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- dis may,
- dis mayed,
- dis maying,
- dis mays,
- dis-courage,
- dis-courages,
- dis-may,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-maying,
- dis-mays,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains.
- deluge
- enwrap
- lade
- macerate
-
overflow
- bubble over,
- fall over,
- irrupt,
- overtop,
- run over,
- spill over,
- Irrupted,
- Overbrim,
- Overtopped,
- Overtopping,
- Welled,
- Welling,
- overtops,
- running over,
- bubbling over,
- bubbled over,
- bubbles over,
- dis charge,
- dis charged,
- dis charges,
- dis charging,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charged,
- dis-charges,
- dis-charging,
- falling over,
- falls over,
- fell over,
- irrupting,
- irrupts,
- over brim,
- over brimmed,
- over brimming,
- over brims,
- over flow,
- over flowed,
- over flowing,
- over flown,
- over flows,
- over topped,
- over topping,
- over tops,
- over-brim,
- over-brimmed,
- over-brimming,
- over-brims,
- over-flow,
- over-flowed,
- over-flowing,
- over-flown,
- over-flows,
- over-topping,
- over-tops,
- overbrimmed,
- overbrimming,
- overbrims,
- ran over,
- runs over,
- spilled over,
- spilling over,
- spills over,
- spilt over,
- wells over.
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perspire
- perspire,
- am damp,
- am wet,
- are damp,
- are wet,
- art damp,
- art wet,
- be damp,
- be wet,
- being damp,
- being wet,
- brake a sweat,
- brake sweat,
- break a sweat,
- break sweat,
- breaking a sweat,
- breaking sweat,
- breaks a sweat,
- breaks sweat,
- broke a sweat,
- broke sweat,
- gat a lather,
- gat in a lather,
- gat in lather,
- gat lather,
- get a lather,
- get in a lather,
- get in lather,
- get lather,
- gets a lather,
- gets in a lather,
- gets in lather,
- gets lather,
- getting a lather,
- getting in a lather,
- getting in lather,
- getting lather,
- got a lather,
- got in a lather,
- got in lather,
- got lather,
- gotten a lather,
- gotten in a lather,
- gotten in lather,
- gotten lather,
- is damp,
- is wet,
- was damp,
- was wet,
- wast damp,
- wast wet,
- were damp,
- were wet,
- wert damp,
- wert wet.
- sop
- souse
-
spatter
- bespatter,
- bestrew,
- polka dot,
- specked,
- Bespattering,
- Bestrewing,
- Specking,
- bestrews,
- bestrewed,
- bestrewn,
- be spatter,
- be spattering,
- be spatters,
- be strew,
- be strewed,
- be strewing,
- be strewn,
- be strews,
- be-spatter,
- be-spattering,
- be-spatters,
- be-strew,
- be-strewed,
- be-strewing,
- be-strewn,
- be-strews,
- bespatters,
- dis perse,
- dis-perse,
- polka dots,
- polka dotted,
- polka dotting,
- polka-dot,
- polka-dots,
- polka-dotted,
- polka-dotting,
- polkadot,
- polkadots,
- polkadotted,
- polkadotting.
- spread out
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submerse
- cast down,
- cave in,
- Shipwrecking,
- shipwrecks,
- force down,
- caving in,
- casting down,
- casts down,
- caved in,
- caves in,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- ex cavate,
- ex-cavate,
- forced down,
- forces down,
- forcing down,
- go bottom,
- go the bottom,
- go to the bottom,
- goes bottom,
- goes to bottom,
- goes to the bottom,
- going bottom,
- going the bottom,
- going to bottom,
- going to the bottom,
- over turn,
- over turning,
- over turns,
- over-turn,
- over-turning,
- tipped over,
- tipping over,
- tips over,
- touch bottom,
- touched bottom,
- touches bottom,
- touching bottom,
- went bottom,
- went the bottom,
- went to bottom,
- went to the bottom.
- bathe
- brew
- dip
- douse
- drench
- drown
- engulf
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impregnate
- pro create,
- pro created,
- pro creates,
- pro creating,
- pro duce,
- pro duces,
- pro-create,
- pro-created,
- pro-creates,
- pro-creating,
- pro-duces,
- re produced,
- re produces,
- re producing,
- re-produce,
- re-produced,
- re-produces,
- re-producing,
- trans fuse,
- trans fused,
- trans fuses,
- trans fusing,
- trans-fuse,
- trans-fused,
- trans-fuses,
- trans-fusing.
- marinate
-
permeate
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- pass through,
- Interfuse,
- diffuses,
- passed through,
- passes through,
- passing through,
- interfused,
- in filtrate,
- in filtrated,
- in filtrating,
- in-filtrate,
- in-filtrates,
- in-filtrating,
- inter fuse,
- inter fused,
- inter fuses,
- inter-fuse,
- inter-fused,
- inter-fuses,
- inter-fusing,
- interfusing.
- pickle
- quench
-
settle
- bed down,
- set down,
- touch down,
- Roosted,
- Roosting,
- setting down,
- sets down,
- settled down,
- settling down,
- settles down,
- bedded down,
- bedding down,
- beds down,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- re pose,
- re posed,
- re-pose,
- re-posed,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-sides,
- touched down,
- touching down.
- soak
- splash
- submerge
- suffuse
-
wash
- clean up,
- do the dishes,
- lave,
- shampoo,
- wash up,
- Shampooed,
- Shampooing,
- Starched,
- Starching,
- take a bath,
- cleaned up,
- cleaning up,
- cleans up,
- did dishes,
- did laundry,
- did the dishes,
- did the laundry,
- didst dishes,
- didst laundry,
- didst the dishes,
- didst the laundry,
- do dishes,
- do laundry,
- does dishes,
- does laundry,
- does the dishes,
- does the laundry,
- doest dishes,
- doest laundry,
- doest the dishes,
- doest the laundry,
- doeth dishes,
- doeth laundry,
- doeth the dishes,
- doeth the laundry,
- doing dishes,
- doing laundry,
- doing the dishes,
- doing the laundry,
- dost dishes,
- dost laundry,
- dost the dishes,
- dost the laundry,
- doth dishes,
- doth laundry,
- doth the dishes,
- doth the laundry,
- fresh up,
- freshed up,
- freshening up,
- freshens up,
- freshes up,
- freshing up,
- take a shower,
- take bath,
- takes a shower,
- takes bath,
- takes shower,
- taking a bath,
- taking a shower,
- taking shower,
- took a bath,
- took a shower,
- took bath,
- washed up,
- washing up.
- wash with water and, usually, soap
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swamp
- over-crowding,
- overcrowd,
- Snowed,
- Snowing,
- overcrowding,
- be set,
- be sets,
- be setting,
- be siege,
- be sieged,
- be sieges,
- be sieging,
- be-set,
- be-sets,
- be-setting,
- be-siege,
- be-sieged,
- be-sieges,
- be-sieging,
- over crowd,
- over crowded,
- over crowding,
- over crowds,
- over loaded,
- over loading,
- over loads,
- over-crowd,
- over-crowded,
- over-crowds,
- over-load,
- over-loaded,
- over-loading,
- over-loads,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
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prepare by boiling
- brew.
- make wet
- take moisture out of
- inundate with water
-
put into liquid
- dip.
- saturate
- drench, extinguish with liquid
- wet thoroughly
- submerge in liquid; submerge and die
-
dip in liquid
- dunk.
- absorb, overwhelm
- submerge in liquid
- infuse, fill; make pregnant
- introduce; soak
- make slippery
- make wet, damp
- be busy with
- pour out, flood
- filter, spread throughout
- preserve fruit or vegetable
- dive or fall fast
- destroy, extinguish
- wash off, out
- drench, wet through
- come to rest; fall
-
drench, wet
- soak.
- make very wet
- splash, sprinkle
- let soak
- dunk in liquid
- overwhelm, flood
-
bathe, clean
- wash.
- dampen; put water in
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dank
- dank.
-
oily
- butyraceous,
- saponaceous,
- Lubricous,
- Smeary,
- lubricative,
- co axing,
- co-axing,
- hypo critical,
- in sinuating,
- in-sinuating,
- more butyraceous,
- more cajoling,
- more coaxing,
- more lubricant,
- more lubricative,
- more lubricous,
- more oil soaked,
- more oil-soaked,
- more oiled,
- more oilsoaked,
- more saponaceous,
- most butyraceous,
- most cajoling,
- most coaxing,
- most lubricant,
- most lubricative,
- most lubricous,
- most oil soaked,
- most oil-soaked,
- most oiled,
- most oilsoaked,
- most saponaceous,
- oil soaked,
- oil-soaked,
- oilsoaked,
- smearier,
- smeariest,
- smooth tongued,
- smoothtongued.
- watery
-
hot
- feverous,
- igneous,
- smoking,
- Thermogenic,
- decalescent,
- calescent,
- de calescent,
- de-calescent,
- in candescent,
- like an oven,
- like oven,
- more calescent,
- more decalescent,
- more feverous,
- more igneous,
- more recalescent,
- more smoking,
- more thermogenic,
- most calescent,
- most decalescent,
- most igneous,
- most ovenlike,
- most parching,
- most recalescent,
- most smoking,
- most thermogenic,
- ovenlike,
- recalescent.
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close
- choky,
- close-grained,
- closelipped,
- mingy,
- niggardly,
- sweltry,
- thick with,
- under one's nose,
- unventilated,
- buddy-buddy,
- close-lipped,
- tight-fisted,
- hard by,
- thick as thieves,
- around the corner,
- across street,
- across the street,
- around corner,
- buddy buddy,
- buddybuddy,
- buttoning up,
- chokier,
- chokiest,
- clamming up,
- close grained,
- close lipped,
- closegrained,
- cozy with,
- de voted,
- de-voted,
- ex act,
- ex-act,
- give or take a little,
- give or take little,
- give take a little,
- give take little,
- hush hush,
- hushhush,
- in ball park,
- in separable,
- in spitting distance,
- in the ball park,
- in-separable,
- making it with,
- making with,
- mingier,
- mingiest,
- more attached,
- more buddy buddy,
- more buddy-buddy,
- more buddybuddy,
- more circumscribed,
- more close grained,
- more close lipped,
- more close-grained,
- more close-lipped,
- more closegrained,
- more closelipped,
- more confining,
- more consolidated,
- more cropped,
- more jam packed,
- more jam-packed,
- more near at hand,
- more near-at-hand,
- more skinflint,
- more stale smelling,
- more stale-smelling,
- more stalesmelling,
- more suffocating,
- more tight-fisted,
- more unforthcoming,
- more unventilated,
- most abutting,
- most attached,
- most buddy-buddy,
- most buddybuddy,
- most circumscribed,
- most close grained,
- most close lipped,
- most close-grained,
- most close-lipped,
- most closelipped,
- most confining,
- most consolidated,
- most cropped,
- most jam packed,
- most jam-packed,
- most near at hand,
- most near-at-hand,
- most niggardly,
- most skinflint,
- most stale smelling,
- most stale-smelling,
- most stalesmelling,
- most suffocating,
- most tight fisted,
- most tight-fisted,
- most unforthcoming,
- most unventilated,
- mum the word,
- mum word,
- mum's word,
- mums the word,
- mums word,
- near at hand,
- near-at-hand,
- nearlier,
- nearliest,
- on q t,
- on qt,
- on the q t,
- on top each other,
- palsy walsy,
- palsywalsy,
- pennypinching,
- re tired,
- re-lated,
- stale smelling,
- stale-smelling,
- stalesmelling,
- sweltrier,
- sweltriest,
- tight chops,
- tight fisted,
- tight lipped,
- un comfortable,
- un forthcoming,
- un generous,
- un ventilated,
- un-comfortable,
- un-communicative,
- un-forthcoming,
- un-generous,
- un-ventilated,
- under nose,
- under one nose,
- under ones nose,
- zipping lips,
- zipping one lips,
- zipping one's lips,
- zipping ones lips.
- moist
- heavy
- wet
- airless
- clammy
- luscious
- oppressive
- slick
-
slippery
- glace,
- dis honest,
- dis-honest,
- fly by night,
- in secure,
- in securer,
- in securest,
- in-constant,
- in-secure,
- in-securer,
- in-securest,
- like a skating rink,
- like skating rink,
- more glace,
- most glace,
- two faced,
- twofaced,
- un predictable,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- un stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-predictable,
- un-safe,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un-stable,
- un-stabler,
- un-stablest,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest,
- un-trustworthy.
- sodden
- sultry
- sweaty
- tufted
- yummy
- creamy
- damp
- delicious
- fatty
- gooey
- greasy
- juicy
-
liquid
- aqueous,
- deliquescent,
- dissolvable,
- fusible,
- ichorous,
- liquescent,
- meltable,
- runny,
- serous,
- Mellifluent,
- runnier,
- runniest,
- Uncongealed,
- de liquescent,
- de-liquescent,
- dis solvable,
- dis solved,
- dis-solvable,
- dis-solved,
- fluidic,
- liquiform,
- more aqueous,
- more deliquescent,
- more dissolvable,
- more dissolved,
- more fluidic,
- more fusible,
- more ichorous,
- more liquescent,
- more liquiform,
- more mellifluent,
- more meltable,
- more serous,
- more splashing,
- more thawed,
- more uncongealed,
- most aqueous,
- most deliquescent,
- most dissolvable,
- most fluidic,
- most fusible,
- most liquescent,
- most liquiform,
- most mellifluent,
- most meltable,
- most serous,
- most thawed,
- most uncongealed,
- un congealed,
- un-congealed.
- misty
- mossy
-
muddy
- bespattered,
- boggy,
- Caked,
- boggiest,
- boggier,
- be mired,
- be spattered,
- be-mired,
- be-spattered,
- in distinct,
- in-distinct,
- more bemired,
- more bespattered,
- more blurred,
- more caked,
- more subfuse,
- most bemired,
- most caked,
- most subfuse,
- sub fuse,
- sub-fuse,
- subfuse,
- un clean,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- un clear,
- un clearest,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanest,
- un-clear,
- un-clearest.
- muggy
- rainy
- saturated
- slimy
- soaked
- steamy
- sticky
- stormy
- succulent
- sweltering
- watered
- all
- very hot
- near, nearby
- smooth, buttery
-
wet, humid
- damp.
- sarcastic, sharp-tongued
- dull, uninteresting
- moistureless
- full of adipose tissue
- sticky, gummy
- slippery, oily
- depressed, gloomy
-
very high in temperature
- hot.
- very damp, referring to weather
- fluid, flowing, melting
- delicious, delectable
- wet, wettish
- dark and cloudy
-
fatty, greasy
- oily.
- hot and humid
- smooth, polished
- oozy, gooey
- smooth, slick
- damp or soaking
- gummy, adhesive
- rough (referring to weather)
- juicy, delicious
- damp with perspiration
- given water
- liquid, diluted
-
Other relevant words
- bathe,
- bedraggle,
- dampen,
- develop,
- drench,
- drown,
- grow,
- grow up,
- inundate,
- moisten,
- overwhelm,
- ripen,
- submerge,
- water,
- Water-soak,
- waterlog,
- besprent,
- ripped,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- alluring,
- amazing,
- amiable,
- amusing,
- animating,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- attractive,
- awesome,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- boon,
- breathtaking,
- captivating,
- charming,
- clubbable,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- congenial,
- convivial,
- cordial,
- diverting,
- drowned,
- electrifying,
- enchanting,
- energizing,
- enlivening,
- entertaining,
- entrancing,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- expansive,
- extroverted,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- flooded,
- folksy,
- friendly,
- galvanizing,
- garrulous,
- gaseous,
- genial,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- hair-raising,
- hospitable,
- humorless,
- humourless,
- hydrated,
- inebriated,
- inspiring,
- intoxicated,
- inundated,
- invigorating,
- kindly,
- liquid,
- marvelous,
- mesmerizing,
- moving,
- neighborly,
- nonalcoholic,
- outgoing,
- productive,
- provocative,
- quaggy,
- rip-roaring,
- rousing,
- sensational,
- sloppy,
- sloughy,
- sociable,
- social,
- spectacular,
- spellbinding,
- squashy,
- steaming,
- stirring,
- submerged,
- surprising,
- suspenseful,
- swamped,
- talkative,
- tantalizing,
- tearful,
- thrilling,
- touching,
- unhumorous,
- wonderful,
- wondrous,
- Overflowed,
- eye-opening.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
out-
- Antonyms:
- in-, end-.
