Why are wines described as ‘dry’ or ‘sweet’ instead of ‘dry’ and ‘wet’

Question

Or alternatively ‘sharp’ or ‘sweet’.

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It refers to the sugar content of the wine – “wet” isn’t a good term for a lot of sugar, “sharp” isn’t a good term for not much sugar. Meanwhile, sweet is sweet and dry is DRY of sugar and is DRIER on the palate due to less sugar and oftentimes, more tannins (and definitely a much higher tannin to sugar ratio).

Edit: Words are hard when waking up, fixed