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[syn: bedewed, dewy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dewy \Dew"y\, a.
1. Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist
with, dew.
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A dewy mist
Went and watered all the ground. --Milton.
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When dewy eve her curtain draws. --Keble.
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2. Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
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Dewy sleep ambrosial. --Cowper.
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3. (Bot.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if
covered with dew.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dewy
adj 1: wet with dew [syn: bedewed, dewy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "dewy":
boggy, budding, callow, damp, dampish, dank, ever-new, evergreen,
fenny, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, humid,
immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact,
juicy, maiden, maidenly, marshy, minor, moist, muggy, naive,
neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, original, pristine, rainy,
raw, ripening, roric, roriferous, sappy, sempervirent, sticky,
swampy, tacky, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped,
undried, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed,
unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal,
virgin, virginal, wet, wettish, young