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sprinkle

noun

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1 a light or fine rain

decided it was not worth carrying an umbrella for just a sprinkle

Synonyms of sprinkle

drizzle, mist, mizzle

Words Related to sprinkle

precipitation, rainfall, shower

Near Antonyms of sprinkle

cloudburst, deluge, downpour, storm

rainstorm, thunderstorm

monsoon

2 a small number

received only a sprinkle of suggestions for the name of the school mascot

Synonyms of sprinkle

couple, few, handful, scatter, scattering, smatter, smattering, sprinkling

Words Related to sprinkle

minority

atom, crumb, fragment, grain, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, particle, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

Near Antonyms of sprinkle

majority, most

abundance, excess, plenty, surplus

deal, gobs, heap, lot, mass, much, peck, pile, plenitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, slather, slew, stack, wad, wealth

Antonyms of sprinkle

army, crowd, flock, gazillion, horde, host, jillion, kazillion, legion, loads, many, mountain, multitude, oodles, scads, thousands, zillion

sprinkle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of sprinkle

1 to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on

sprinkle the newly seeded lawn with water

Synonyms of sprinkle

bestrew, dot, pepper, scatter, sow, spot, spray, strew

Words Related to sprinkle

blanket, drizzle, dust

stud

dapple, fleck, speckle, stipple

bespatter, spatter

2 to mark with small spots especially unevenly

sprinkled the cake with bits of coconut

Synonyms of sprinkle

blotch, dapple, dot, fleck, freckle, marble, mottle, pepper, shoot, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stipple

Words Related to sprinkle

blot, dye, stain

band, bar, streak, stripe

intersperse, set, stud

bespatter, spatter

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