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
   • The dewy grass was too slick for football.

   Synonyms:

   bedewed, rory, roric, rorid, roscid

2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
   • In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
   • At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper
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
   • It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 13