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driblet

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Synonyms and Antonyms of driblet

1 a very small amount

money doled out in driblets to the workers

Synonyms of driblet

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

Words Related to driblet

hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit

atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap

dash, drop, pinch

part, portion, section

bite, nibble, taste

handful, scattering, smatter, smattering

chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

Phrases Synonymous with driblet

drop in the bucket

Near Antonyms of driblet

abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

chunk, hunk, lump, slab

2 the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass

rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there

Synonyms of driblet

bead, blob, drip, drop, droplet, glob, globule

Words Related to driblet

dewdrop, raindrop, tear, teardrop

dribble, trickle

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