dewy
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- adjective
- /ˈduːi/
:
cubierto de rocío
- His skin was tanned, but still had the dewy softness of first youth.
- dewy skin
- dewy grass
- dewy-eyed
Salt is dewier and it's a little bit more medium coverage in comparison to this.
- Salt is dewier and it's a little bit more medium coverage in comparison to this.
Examples
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Just watch your partner's eyes grow dewy
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A thousand eyes, all moist and dewy, share the lovely vision.
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I have naturally dewy skin.
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Besides, I caught her scent, all flowers, dewy and clean.
Fiction book (2000) -
The boy lugged the cool, dewy milk can across the yard toward the kitchen.
Fiction book (1996) -
Below him, sunlight glinted off the dewy rooftops of Harmonia.
Fiction book (1992) -
The sky pales to pink-white through the telephone wires; the birds peck the dewy evening lawn for worms.
Fiction book (1999) -
The town's population stands—the men, stoic; the women, dewy-eyed, at patriotic attention.
Fiction book (1992) -
The garden was beautiful in the morning, as the dewy leaves sparkled in the sunlight.
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After the rain, the flowers looked fresh and dewy in the early morning light.
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Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dewy comes from the old English word dew, meaning 'drops of water on the grass', plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'covered with'. So dewy means 'covered with dew' or looks fresh and slightly wet.