dewy
/ˈdjuː.i/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.64 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of dew.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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"
- "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; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.