Rheumy

Quick meaning: Rheumy is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.

Meaning

Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.

More Meanings

1. Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.
2. (literary, poetic, obsolete) Especially of the air: damp, moist.

Example Sentences

Awoke calm in the morning, clearheaded. Lungs rheumier than usual, though.

Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.

Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.

Eventually we'd find a date and we'd meet up, his eyes a little rheumier, his untrained eyebrows even more adventurous than last year.

Word Forms

• rheumier
• rheumiest

Synonyms for rheumy

Depending on context, synonyms include rheumatic, rheumic, rheumed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rheumatic, rheumaticky, rheumatological, rheumatismoid, rheumatick, rhinorrheal.

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