dewy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/ˈdjuː.i/
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/ˈdjuː.i/ · /ˈd͡ʒuː.i/ · /ˈduː.i/
Definition of dewy
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Covered by dew.
“His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”
“The dewy grass was too slick for football.”
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adj
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Covered by dew.
“His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”
“The dewy grass was too slick for football.”
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Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
“In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.”
“At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim”
- Resembling or characteristic of dew.
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Fresh and innocent.
“1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Thy gentle words stir poison there;”
“It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]”
“Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.
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