sprinkly

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
    — The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
  2. Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
    — Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
  3. Subject to being sprinkled on.
    — I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
  4. Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
    — Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name."
  5. Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
    — I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all.
  6. Resembling sprinkles.
    — When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets...

词形变化

more sprinkly comparative most sprinkly superlative

词源

From sprinkle + -y.
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