Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, relating to, or made of rheum (“thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum”); watery.
2. Producing rheum from the mucous membranes; (also figuratively) especially of the eyes: filled with rheum; watery.
3. (literary, poetic, obsolete) Especially of the air: damp, moist.

Example Sentences

So, too-much Cold couers vvith hoary Fleece / The head of Age, his fleſh diminiſhes, / VVithers his face, hollovves his rheumy eyes, / And makes himſelf euen his ovvn ſelf deſpiſe; […]

The Northern Breath, that freezes Floods, he binds; / VVith all the race of Cloud-diſpelling VVinds: / […] / From his divided Beard tvvo Streams he pours, / His Head and rhumy Eyes diſtill in Shovvers.

But were it not curious to know how Sieyes, now in these days (for he is said to be still alive) looks out on all that Constitution masonry, through the rheumy soberness of extreme age?

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

[…] Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner’s rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment— […]

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

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

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Use rheumy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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