ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsDdrizzle
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drizzle
Meaning: light rain made of very small drops
drizzle in a sentence
How drizzle is used in real sentences:
A gentle drizzle dotted the sidewalk during our walk home.
A light drizzle began during recess, but the students barely noticed it.
“A cold drizzle fell, but the tiny drops did not keep families home.”
— from the passage A Waterway Opens
Synonyms for drizzle
Other words for drizzle — sprinkle, mist and fine rain — carry the same meaning.
- sprinkle
- mist
- fine rain
Antonyms of drizzle
Words that mean the opposite of drizzle:
- downpour
- cloudburst
Where it comes from
From Old English dreosan 'to fall'
Memory hook
Drizzle drops are dinky drops of rain.