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# dewy

«dewy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wet with dew, the tiny drops of water that form on grass…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dewy, dewier, dewiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wet with dew, the tiny drops of water that form on grass and leaves on cool nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#m1)

2) Fresh, soft and slightly shiny, as in dewy skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#m2)

3) Dewy-eyed means with eyes wet with tears, or too hopeful and innocent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science it shows that water vapour in the air has cooled and turned to liquid (condensation) on cold surfaces at night. In stories a dewy morning sets a calm, fresh, early scene. Phrases: dewy grass, dewy morning, dewy-eyed.

### examples

- Our shoes got soaked running across the dewy grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x1)
- The spider web sparkled on the dewy morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x2)
- The dewy leaves were cold to touch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x3)
- By noon the sun had dried the dewy field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x4)
- Mum's face cream promises dewy skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x5)
- Gran got dewy-eyed watching the school play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x6)
- We saw the dewy windows of the car before school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x7)
- Wherever she set her blessed foot, there was at once a dewy flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/#x8)

### note

Comes from dew (not «due» or «do» — homophones in many accents). Dew is not rain: it forms from the air itself when the ground cools. Dewier, dewiest for comparisons.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dewy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dewy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.