watered-down



watered-down

1. Literally, of a drink or solution that has been diluted with water. To reduce my daughter's sugar intake, I give her watered-down juice. That cleaner has such a strong smell that I can only use a watered-down version of it.
2. Inferior. That movie was terrible—it's basically just a watered-down version of the The Godfather.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
PriitaPREE:-tahFinnish
MeganMEG-ən (English)Welsh, English
RitvaREET-vahFinnish
Pooja-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Jaumet-Catalan
DaleDAY-əl, DAYLEnglish