watery

Etymology

From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteriġ (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarīg. Equivalent to water + -y.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
   The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms. 2005, Robert L. Mott, Radio Sound Effects
2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
   European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River. 2013-01, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-01-22, page 59
3. Diluted or having too much water.
4. (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
5. Weak and insipid.
   When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. August 21, 2012, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club
6. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
   I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes.
7. Tearful.