bedewed
8.2
Covered with small drops of water like morning dew
- adjective
- /bɪˈduːd/
- Archaic
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- The grass was bedewed with droplets of water in the early morning light.
Examples
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The flowers looked beautiful, bedewed with tiny glistening beads of moisture.
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Telemachus shook his head, patting his bedewed brow dry with a folded pocket handkerchief.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her garden was bedewed after the night's rain, sparkling in the sunlight.
Synonyms
damp
vsbedewed
113
1.0
Slightly wet and often uncomfortable
describes gentle natural moisture from dew rather than an unpleasant dampness
dewy
vsbedewed
7
2.7
Wet with small drops of water that form on grass or skin in the morning
is about being made wet by dew rather than mere appearance
dampish
vsbedewed
5.7
A little wet and not completely dry
describes moisture specifically as if produced by dew
Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
bedewed positive
Morphology
Etymology
Bedewed comes from the start be- meaning 'make' and the word dew, which means 'water drops on plants in the early morning'. So bedewed simply means 'made wet with dew', like grass or flowers covered in tiny drops.