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单词 driblets
释义

driblet

noun

drib·​let ˈdrib-lət How to pronounce driblet (audio)
1
: a trifling or small sum or part
2
: a drop of liquid

Synonyms

  • ace
  • bit
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dram
  • glimmer
  • hint
  • lick
  • little
  • mite
  • nip
  • ounce
  • particle
  • peanuts
  • ray
  • scintilla
  • scruple
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shred
  • skosh
  • smack
  • smell
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smidge
  • snap
  • soupçon
  • spark
  • spatter
  • speck
  • splash
  • spot
  • sprinkling
  • strain
  • streak
  • suspicion
  • tad
  • touch
  • trace
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Example Sentences

money doled out in driblets to the workers rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there

Word History

First Known Use

1615, in the meaning defined at sense 1

driblets

noun

plural of driblet
1
as in splashes
a very small amount money doled out in driblets to the workers

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • splashes
  • little
  • glimmers
  • specks
  • sprinklings
  • touches
  • hints
  • licks
  • bits
  • dabs
  • traces
  • crumbs
  • handfuls
  • smidges
  • sparks
  • slivers
  • spatters
  • soupçons
  • ounces
  • flecks
  • shadows
  • drams
  • rays
  • particles
  • nips
  • shreds
  • scruples
  • drops
  • peanuts
  • smidgeons
  • smacks
  • bites
  • shades
  • smidgins
  • streaks
  • smidgens
  • pinches
  • dashes
  • skoshes
  • mites
  • smells
  • strains
  • scintillas
  • molecules
  • snaps
  • suspicions
  • grains
  • spots
  • aces
  • syllables
  • parts
  • fragments
  • granules
  • minims
  • flyspecks
  • doses
  • atoms
  • iotas
  • scraps
  • patches
  • whits
  • morsels
  • semblances
  • tastes
  • jots
  • portions
  • nibbles
  • drops in the bucket
  • motes
  • vestiges
  • dots
  • scatterings
  • minimums
  • splinters
  • smatterings
  • handsful
  • flakes
  • shivers
  • chips
  • sections
  • smatters
  • tittles
  • shavings
  • nubbins
  • minima
  • shards
  • modicums
  • tatters
  • clippings
  • hoots
  • parings
  • smithereens
  • shots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • masses
  • quantities
  • bushels
  • buckets
  • barrels
  • piles
  • fistfuls
  • loads
  • mountains
  • rafts
  • reams
  • gobs
  • heaps
  • bundles
  • wealths
  • stacks
  • wads
  • scads
  • pecks
  • lashings
  • lots
  • volumes
  • deals
  • oodles
  • boatloads
  • messes
  • abundances
  • profusions
  • surpluses
  • potfuls
  • plenties
  • overflows
  • embarrassments
  • much
  • lashins
  • excesses
  • superfluities
  • bonanzas
  • chunks
  • lumps
  • passels
  • slabs
  • overages
  • surfeits
  • overmuch
  • hunks
  • oversupplies
  • superabundances
  • overkills
  • overabundances
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2
as in droplets
the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • droplets
  • beads
  • drips
  • trickles
  • globules
  • globs
  • drops
  • blobs
  • gobbets
  • dribbles
  • raindrops
  • tears
  • dewdrops
  • spatters
  • teardrops
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