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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, airy, anemic, aquatic, aqueous, ascetic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, banal, bland, bloodless, boyish, changeable, dead, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, excretory, exiguous, fade, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, flowing, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly, halfhearted, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, impoverished, inane, indecisive, indifferent, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, insubstantial, irresolute, jejune, juicy, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, lacy, lean, light, limited, liquid, liquidy, meager, mean, mild, milk-and-water, milky, miserly, misty, mushy, namby-pamby, narrow, neutral, niggardly, pallid, paltry, papery, pappy, parsimonious, plashy, poor, pulpy, puny, rare, rarefied, rheumy, runny, salivant, salivary, salivous, sapless, sappy, savorless, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, skimp, skimpy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, sloppy, small, spare, sparing, spermatic, spiceless, splashy, stale, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle, succulent, svelte, swashy, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unflavored, unnourishing, unnutritious, unsavory, vague, vapid, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watering, waterish, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy

Dictionary Results for watery:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

watery
    adj 1: filled with water; "watery soil"
    2: wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears;
       "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: reeking, watery]
    3: relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery
       substance"; "a watery color"
    4: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery
       milk"; "weak tea" [syn: watery, washy, weak]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Watery \Wa"ter*y\, a. [AS. waeterig.]
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   1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The
      watery god." --Dryden. "Fish within their watery
      residence." --Milton.
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   2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
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   3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
      watery humors.
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            The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
      tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
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