drizzly

«drizzly» in Mova's school dictionary: Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (drizzly, drizzlier, drizzliest)

meaning for a pupil

Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and weather lessons, recording weather; in everyday life in the UK and Ireland, very common; in stories it sets a grey, gloomy mood.

examples

• It was a drizzly morning in Dublin. tree →
• We played outside even though it was drizzly. tree →
• The forecast says drizzly with sunny spells. tree →
• A drizzly day makes the windows misty. tree →
• It's been drizzly all week. tree →

note

Comes from «drizzle» (light rain). Drizzle is lighter than a shower or downpour.

In the corpora

• «It's pure dreich here,» the letters say, and Lily learns dreich is Scottish for grey and drizzly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drizzly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.