ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
  2. Subject to being sprinkled on.
  3. Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
  4. Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
  5. 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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