dewy

English

dewy (comparative dewier or more dewy, superlative dewiest or most dewy)

Covered by dew.
Synonyms: bedewed, rory; see also Thesaurus:bedewed

The dewy grass was too slick for football.
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
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.

covered by dew

bearing droplets of water

From Old English dēawiġ, from Old English dēaw. Equivalent to dew +‎ -y.

dewy

“deuī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.