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# drizzly

«drizzly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (drizzly, drizzlier, drizzliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Drizzly describes weather with light, fine rain falling steadily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and weather lessons, recording weather; in everyday life in the UK and Ireland, very common; in stories it sets a grey, gloomy mood.

### examples

- It was a drizzly morning in Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#x1)
- We played outside even though it was drizzly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#x2)
- The forecast says drizzly with sunny spells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#x3)
- A drizzly day makes the windows misty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#x4)
- It's been drizzly all week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drizzly/#x5)

### note

Comes from «drizzle» (light rain). Drizzle is lighter than a shower or downpour.

### In the corpora

- [«It's pure dreich here,» the letters say, and Lily learns dreich is Scottish for grey and drizzly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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