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Synonyms for drizzly

Grammar : Adj
Spell : driz-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪz əl

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Définition of drizzly

Origin :
  • 1540s, perhaps an alteration of drysning "a falling of dew" (c.1400), from Old English -drysnian, related to dreosan "to fall," from PIE root *dhreu- (see drip (v.)). Or perhaps a frequentative of Middle English dresen "to fall," from Old English dreosan. Related: Drizzled; drizzling. As a noun, from 1550s.
  • As in moist : adj wet, wettish
  • As in rainy : adj moist
  • As in clammy : adj damp
  • As in damp : adj wet, humid
Example sentences :
  • The shops were not yet all lighted, and a drizzly rain was falling.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • Her hair wet with the drizzly atmosphere hung about her face.
  • Extract from : « Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) » by John Roby
  • Toward noon the rain turned to a drizzly snow, and finally ceased.
  • Extract from : « The U.P. Trail » by Zane Grey
  • Though a drizzly, sleety day, it did not dampen our ardor—nor that of the mosquitos.
  • Extract from : « In Search of a Siberian Klondike » by Homer B. Hulbert
  • When the morning came, dark and drizzly, she found it hard to keep her word.
  • Extract from : « The Hallowell Partnership » by Katharine Holland Brown
  • The day changes as it wears itself away and becomes dark and drizzly.
  • Extract from : « Bleak House » by Charles Dickens
  • The drizzly day tends westward; the cry is still: "To Versailles!"
  • Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle
  • When he aroused himself with a start, the grey, drizzly dawn was upon him.
  • Extract from : « The Man From Brodney's » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • Sorrow and sadness within; gloom, fog, or drizzly rain without.
  • Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
  • You take a night when there's one of these grisly, drizzly, gray mists, and then there isn't any particular shape to a shore.
  • Extract from : « Life On The Mississippi, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Antonyms for drizzly

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