different between weathertight vs watertight

English

Alternative forms

• weather-tight

Etymology

weather +? tight

Adjective

weathertight (comparative more weathertight, superlative most weathertight)

1. Sealed against the wind and rain.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,^[1]

     In one week, my house was made weather-tight, and thoroughly cleansed from top to bottom […]

   • 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917, Part VI, lines 309-312, p. 215^[2]

     […] There’s a rubble-stone

     Unfit for the front o’ the building, stuff to stow

     In a gap behind and keep us weather-tight;

     There’s porphyry for the prominent place. Good lack!

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 3, p. 35,

     Their brownstone still stands, and it is still snug and weathertight.

Synonyms

• weatherproof

English

Etymology

From water +? tight.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??.t?.ta?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??.t?.ta?t/, /?w??.t?.ta?t/

Adjective

watertight (comparative more watertight, superlative most watertight)

1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
2. (figuratively) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify.

Synonyms

• waterproof, water-proof, impervious, impermeable

Derived terms

• watertight alibi
• watertightness

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