sopping
Dripping with water
Sopping means thoroughly soaked or drenched: Her clothes were sopping after the rainstorm.
The word intensifies wet—something sopping wet is saturated beyond merely damp.
It derives from sop, meaning to soak or dip in liquid.
The dog came in sopping from the puddles.
Saturated with liquid
- drenchedThoroughly wet throughout
- soakingCompletely saturated with liquid
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- drippingRendered cooking fat
soggy · saturated · squelchy · soused · wringing · spongy · absorbent · heavy
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
- cloudburstSudden heavy localized rainfall
torrential · drenching · pouring · bucketing · sheets · storm · squall · tempest
waterlogged
Saturated with liquid
dripping · soggy · saturated · squelchy · soused · wringing · spongy · absorbent · heavy · laden
downpour
Intense precipitation event
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
cloudburst · torrential · drenching · pouring · bucketing · sheets · storm · squall · tempest · rainfall
spills
Accidental liquid escapes
puddles · stains · sloppy · muddy · grimy · mucky · slick · slippery · tracked · smeared
- moisturemoisture, humidity, dampness, wetness, wet
- saturatedsoaked, drenched, waterlogged, soggy, sodden
- downpourdeluge, cloudburst, torrent, heavy rain, rainstorm