dewy

comparative dewier · comparative more dewy · superlative dewiest · superlative most dewy

1. Covered by dew.

   The dewy grass was too slick for football.

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   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.

   1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149

   Synonyms: bedewed, rory, bedewed, roric, rorid, rory, roscid

2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.

   In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.

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   At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim

   1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper

3. Resembling or characteristic of dew.
4. 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;

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   It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]

   1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 13

   Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.

   2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23