drizzly
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- 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.
- It is slightly more drizzly than I would have preferred.
Examples
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It was a drizzly night.
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I went on a drizzly, chilly day during the Passover holiday.
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Even if it is cold and drizzly, we rarely see rain for days on end.
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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.
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The weather was drizzly and cloudy at the time of the accident.
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Good morning and welcome to a very cold, wet, muddy, drizzly English morning.
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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
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Having a lot of rain
Antonyms
How Heavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.