👋 Is water wet?

Introduction

Merriam-Webster's definition of wet is

"consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)"

Reasoning

Water consists of liquid and matches the description of "such as water." Therefore, water is, by definition, wet.

Results

The internet has not accepted this conclusion and have countered with two lines of reasoning:

• "wet implies that something can be dry...the water makes things wet..."
• "I think that water as a whole is wet, but an individual water molecule is not. Something is wet if it is being touched by a liquid. So water is being touched by more water is wet.

Conclusion

However, anyone who has taken chemistry should know that groups of molecules of water define the difference between ice, water, and steam.