Sprinkly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sprinkly is an adjective meaning (of precipitation) Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
Meaning
(of precipitation) Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
More Meanings
- Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
- Subject to being sprinkled on.
- Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
- Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
- Resembling sprinkles.
Example Sentences
The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things.
I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mizzling, silvery, besprinckled, sparkly, sparkling, spritzig.
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