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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.i/, /ˈd͡ʒuː.i/, /ˈduː.i/

形容詞

dewy (comparative dewier または more dewy, superlative dewiest または most dewy)

1. Covered by dew.

   Synonyms: bedewed, rory; see also Thesaurus:bedewed

   The dewy grass was too slick for football.

2. Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.

   In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.

   • 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper:

     At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim

3. Fresh and innocent.
   • 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face

     Thy dewy looks sink in my breast

     Thy gentle words stir poison there;

   • 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 13:

     It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; [...]

   • 2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23:

     Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.

派生語

• dewy-eyed

アナグラム

• wyde, wyed