DEWY (dewier, dewiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: dewier    , dewiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dewy mean? 

• DEWY (adjective)
  The adjective DEWY has 1 sense:

1. wet with dew

  Familiarity information: DEWY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEWY (adjective)

Comparative: dewier   
Superlative: dewiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wet with dew

Synonyms:

bedewed; dewy

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

dew (water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air)

 Context examples 

As twilight fell, dewy and still, one by one they gathered on the porch where the June roses were budding beautifully, and each groaned or sighed as she sat down, as if tired or troubled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

By Mr. Rochester they were not observed; he was earnestly looking at my face from which the blood had, I daresay, momentarily fled: for I felt my forehead dewy, and my cheeks and lips cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I trust that the labour and hazard of an investigation—of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon—combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre. I ask no more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)