DRIZZLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drizzling mean? 

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

1. (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIZZLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of rain) falling lightly in very small drops

Context example:

a raw drizzing rain

Similar:

descending (coming down or downward)

 Context examples 

The imprisonment of Wolf Larsen had happened most opportunely, for what must have been the Indian summer of this high latitude was gone and drizzling stormy weather had set in.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One day, Traddles (who had just come home through the drizzling sleet from Court) took a paper out of his desk, and asked me what I thought of that handwriting?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Came days of fog, when even Maud’s spirit drooped and there were no merry words upon her lips; days of calm, when we floated on the lonely immensity of sea, oppressed by its greatness and yet marvelling at the miracle of tiny life, for we still lived and struggled to live; days of sleet and wind and snow-squalls, when nothing could keep us warm; or days of drizzling rain, when we filled our water-breakers from the drip of the wet sail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was so sensitively aware, indeed, of being younger than I could have wished, that for some time I could not make up my mind to pass her at all, under the ignoble circumstances of the case; but, hearing her there with a broom, stood peeping out of window at King Charles on horseback, surrounded by a maze of hackney-coaches, and looking anything but regal in a drizzling rain and a dark-brown fog, until I was admonished by the waiter that the gentleman was waiting for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)