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drizzly

drizzly

5 1.5
Light, steady rain that makes the ground slightly wet
  • adjective
  • /ˈdrɪzli/
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  • On a drizzly morning, the children brought their umbrellas to school to stay dry.
  • a drizzly morning
  • a drizzly day
  • a drizzly afternoon

It is slightly more drizzly than I would have preferred.

Examples

  • It was a drizzly night.

  • I went on a drizzly, chilly day during the Passover holiday.

    Blog text (3)
  • Even if it is cold and drizzly, we rarely see rain for days on end.

    Blog text (23)
  • The next day was raw and drizzly, an ordinary April day.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The sky is gray and drizzly.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Yesterday was a grey and drizzly kind of day.

    Blog text (14)
  • The weather was drizzly and cloudy at the time of the accident.

    Blog text (16)
  • Good morning and welcome to a very cold, wet, muddy, drizzly English morning.

  • The next Wednesday was miserable, gray, and drizzly; the sun a pale smudge.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Monday morning, tourists aimed their cellphones and cameras toward the gray and drizzly sky.

    Blog text (33)

Synonyms

rainy
vsdrizzly
122 1.0

Having a lot of rain

is lighter and shows persistent fine rain making things slightly wet

Antonyms

866 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

226 1.0

Bright with sunlight or cheerful and pleasant like sunshine

How Heavy

torrential
18 5.6
pouring
1.3
showery
  • UK
2.8
drizzly
5 1.5
sprinkling
1 2.5

Surface Forms

drizzly positive

Morphology

drizzly = drizzle (transparent) = drizzle + y

Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-y' to 'drizzle', meaning 'characterized by drizzle', which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Drizzly comes from drizzle, a word that originally meant 'small drops' and is like the word 'drip'. So drizzly describes light, steady rain that only makes things slightly wet.