What are the opposite words for wet?
The opposite of wet is dry. Dry refers to a lack of moisture or water in something. It is the exact opposite of wet, which refers to something that is covered or saturated with water or other liquids. Other antonyms for the word wet include arid, parched, dehydrated, and thirsty. Arid is a term used to describe a dry, desert-like climate. Parched refers to something that is so dry that it is cracking or brittle. Dehydrated describes something that has lost a significant amount of water. Thirsty means needing or wanting water or other fluids because of a feeling of dryness in the mouth or throat.
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- change
- dry
- wet
- blot
- burn
- evaporate
- shrivel
- volatilize
- bathe
- cook
- dehydrate
- desiccate
- sear
- parch
- disgrace, disfigure
- be on fire; set on fire
- prepare food, usually using heat
- take moisture out of
- dry up, dissolve
- reduce to ashes
- dry, burn
- dehydrate, dry up
- cause to become damp, moist
- barren
- bedraggled
- bone-dry
- thirsty
- arid
- parched
- stale
- torrid
- all
- very hot
- unable to support growth
- very dry
- moistureless
- dank
- old, decayed
- damp, moist
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
change
- dry.
-
dry
- dehumidify,
- freeze-dried,
- freeze-dry,
- harden,
- soak up,
- soaking up,
- towel,
- toweling,
- towelling,
- Exsiccate,
- Torrefied,
- Torrefying,
- Torrefy,
- Staled,
- Staling,
- Freeze Drying,
- dehumidifies,
- dehumidified,
- dehumidifying,
- toweled,
- stales,
- towels,
- de humidified,
- de humidifies,
- de humidify,
- de humidifying,
- de-humidified,
- de-humidifies,
- de-humidify,
- de-humidifying,
- freeze dried,
- freeze dries,
- freeze dry,
- freeze-dries,
- freeze-drying,
- freezedried,
- freezedries,
- freezedry,
- freezedrying,
- kilned,
- kilning,
- soaked up,
- soaks up,
- torrefies,
- towelled,
- desiccant,
- dried-up,
- inelaborate,
- juiceless,
- parched,
- sapless,
- Droughty,
- matter of fact,
- Unmoistened,
- draggier,
- draggiest,
- draggy,
- driedup,
- droughtier,
- droughtiest,
- dull as dishwater,
- ho hum,
- in elaborate,
- in-elaborate,
- low key,
- lowkey,
- more dehydrated,
- more desiccant,
- more desiccated,
- more dried up,
- more dried-up,
- more driedup,
- more evaporated,
- more inelaborate,
- more juiceless,
- more sapless,
- more sapped,
- more shriveled,
- more unmoistened,
- most dehydrated,
- most desiccant,
- most desiccated,
- most dried up,
- most dried-up,
- most driedup,
- most evaporated,
- most inelaborate,
- most juiceless,
- most sapless,
- most sapped,
- most shriveled,
- most unmoistened,
- not irrigated,
- re strained,
- re-strained,
- searer,
- searest,
- un moistened,
- un-moistened.
- wet
-
blot
- bespatter,
- bespattered,
- Bespattering,
- take up,
- Smutted,
- Smutting,
- be spatter,
- be spattered,
- be spattering,
- be spatters,
- be-spatter,
- be-spattered,
- be-spattering,
- be-spatters,
- bespatters,
- dis color,
- dis colored,
- dis coloring,
- dis colors,
- dis-color,
- dis-colored,
- dis-coloring,
- dis-colors,
- disco loring,
- disco-loring.
-
burn
- calcine,
- conflagrate,
- heating,
- ignited,
- smoking,
- smoulder,
- smouldering,
- Calcining,
- Lights,
- Reamed,
- Smouldered,
- torched,
- torching,
- calcined,
- reduced to ashes,
- be passionate,
- breathe fire,
- over reach,
- am ablaze,
- am angry,
- am aroused,
- am passionate,
- am stirred up,
- are ablaze,
- are angry,
- are aroused,
- are inflamed,
- are passionate,
- are stirred up,
- art ablaze,
- art angry,
- art aroused,
- art inflamed,
- art passionate,
- art stirred up,
- be ablaze,
- be angry,
- be aroused,
- be inflamed,
- be stirred up,
- being ablaze,
- being angry,
- being aroused,
- being inflamed,
- being passionate,
- being stirred up,
- breathed fire,
- breathes fire,
- breathing fire,
- calcines,
- conflagrated,
- conflagrates,
- conflagrating,
- de fraud,
- de frauds,
- de sire,
- de sired,
- de sires,
- de siring,
- de-fraud,
- de-frauds,
- de-sire,
- de-sired,
- de-sires,
- de-siring,
- is ablaze,
- is angry,
- is aroused,
- is inflamed,
- is passionate,
- is stirred up,
- over reached,
- over reaches,
- over reaching,
- over-reach,
- over-reaches,
- over-reaching,
- re kindle,
- re kindled,
- re kindles,
- re-kindle,
- re-kindled,
- re-kindles,
- re-kindling,
- reduce ashes,
- reduce to ashes,
- reduced ashes,
- reduces ashes,
- reduces to ashes,
- reducing ashes,
- reducing to ashes,
- set a match to,
- set match to,
- sets a match to,
- sets match to,
- setting a match to,
- setting match to,
- smoulders,
- was ablaze,
- was angry,
- was aroused,
- was inflamed,
- was passionate,
- was stirred up,
- wast ablaze,
- wast angry,
- wast aroused,
- wast inflamed,
- wast passionate,
- wast stirred up,
- were ablaze,
- were angry,
- were aroused,
- were passionate,
- were stirred up,
- wert ablaze,
- wert angry,
- wert aroused,
- wert inflamed,
- wert passionate,
- wert stirred up.
-
evaporate
- dematerialize,
- evaporated,
- fade away,
- fading away,
- volatilize,
- Evanish,
- dematerializing,
- dematerialized,
- dematerializes,
- de materialize,
- de materialized,
- de materializes,
- de materializing,
- de-materialize,
- de-materialized,
- de-materializes,
- de-materializing,
- dis appear,
- dis appeared,
- dis appearing,
- dis appears,
- dis perse,
- dis-appear,
- dis-appeared,
- dis-appearing,
- dis-appears,
- dis-perse,
- evanished,
- evanishes,
- evanishing,
- faded away,
- fades away.
- shrivel
- volatilize
- bathe
-
cook
- braise,
- braised,
- braising,
- browned,
- browning,
- decoct,
- escallop,
- fricassee,
- pressure-cook,
- sauteed,
- Decocted,
- Decocting,
- Deviled,
- Devilled,
- Deviling,
- Devilling,
- Escalloped,
- Fricasseeing,
- warm up,
- decocts,
- warmed up,
- warms up,
- braises,
- fricasseed,
- browns,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- deep fried,
- deep fries,
- deep fry,
- escalloping,
- escallops,
- french fry,
- fricassees,
- griddled,
- griddling,
- micro wave,
- micro waved,
- micro waves,
- micro waving,
- micro-wave,
- micro-waved,
- micro-waves,
- micro-waving,
- pressure cook,
- pressure cooked,
- pressure cooking,
- pressure cooks,
- pressure-cooked,
- pressure-cooks,
- pressurecook,
- pressurecooking,
- pressurecooks,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- sautes.
-
dehydrate
- cottonmouth,
- dry out,
- dry up,
- drying up,
- Cottonmouths,
- cotton mouth,
- cotton mouthed,
- cotton mouthing,
- cotton mouths,
- cotton-mouth,
- cotton-mouthed,
- cotton-mouthing,
- cotton-mouths,
- cottonmouthing,
- de hydrate,
- de hydrated,
- de hydrates,
- de hydrating,
- de-hydrate,
- de-hydrated,
- de-hydrates,
- de-hydrating,
- dries out,
- dries up,
- drying out.
- desiccate
- sear
- parch
-
disgrace, disfigure
- blot.
-
be on fire; set on fire
- burn.
-
prepare food, usually using heat
- cook.
- take moisture out of
- dry up, dissolve
- reduce to ashes
- dry, burn
- dehydrate, dry up
- cause to become damp, moist
-
barren
- uncultivable,
- unfertile,
- Infecund,
- Unbearing,
- de solate,
- de-solate,
- in fecund,
- in fertile,
- in-fecund,
- in-fertile,
- more infecund,
- more unbearing,
- more uncultivable,
- most infecund,
- most unbearing,
- most uncultivable,
- un bearing,
- un cultivable,
- un fertile,
- un fruitful,
- un productive,
- un-bearing,
- un-cultivable,
- un-fertile,
- un-fruitful,
- un-productive,
- wastest.
- bedraggled
- bone-dry
- thirsty
- arid
- parched
- stale
- torrid
-
all
- dry.
- very hot
- unable to support growth
- very dry
-
moistureless
- dry.
- dank
- old, decayed
- damp, moist
-
Other relevant words
- bleed,
- dehydrate,
- desiccate,
- drain,
- parch,
- pump,
- scorch,
- siphon,
- abstainer,
- nondrinker,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- baked,
- desiccated,
- dried,
- scorched,
- shriveled,
- withered,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- clearheaded,
- cool,
- courageous,
- cynical,
- dehydrated,
- determined,
- ethical,
- firm,
- freeze-dried,
- good,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hardheaded,
- level,
- mettlesome,
- moral,
- nonalcoholic,
- principled,
- resolute,
- right,
- righteous,
- stalwart,
- steady,
- stouthearted,
- straight,
- strong,
- teetotal,
- temperate,
- tough,
- unadulterated,
- unrelenting,
- unsentimental,
- unvarnished,
- upright,
- virtuous,
- water-repellent,
- water-resistant,
- waterproof,
- watertight,
- Backboned,
- Wrung.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
stops in one's tracks
- Antonyms:
- bore, disenchant, disgust.
