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deawy

deawy is the obsolete form of dewy.

Meaning of dewy

Adjective

dewy (comparative dewier or more dewy, superlative dewiest or most dewy)

  1. Covered by dew.
    • His mildly vivid dewy beam
      Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam
      With elf-light tiniest figures lit
      Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit
      Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip
      In circle.1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149
    Synonyms:
    bedewed, rory, roric, rorid, roscid
  2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
    • In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
  3. Resembling or characteristic of dew.
  4. Fresh and innocent.
    • Thy dewy looks sink in my breast
      Thy gentle words stir poison there;1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face

Forms of deawy

comparativemore deawy
superlativemost deawy

Questions about deawy

What is deawy the obsolete form of?
Deawy is the obsolete form of dewy.

Words near deawy in the dictionary

  1. deaveraging
  2. Deavers
  3. Deaves
  4. deaw
  5. deaws
  6. deawy
  7. deazaflavin
  8. deazaflavins
  9. deazaguanine
  10. deazaneplanocin
  11. deazapurine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deawy (page history and authors); dewy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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