Skip to content
Allin

WET

phraseadjectivecommon in dialogue

Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.

phrase

  1. 1

    Variant of write everything twiceAcronym of write everything twice, a humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.

Forms

comparative
WETter
superlative
WETtest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).