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Color:
Drizzle


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Colors with the same hue:
Misty Teal
Concrete
Light Aqua
Waterspout
Arctic Blue
Nearby colors:
Frost
Mist
Glacier White
Azure 
Light cyan
Powder blue
Luminous Silver
Crystal
Pale blue
Pale turquoise
Water
Airy Aqua
Aquamarine 
Diamond
Gentle Aqua
Celeste
Italian sky blue
Icy Blue
Words evoked by this color:
indistinct,  aleut,  pallidum,  faucet,  fixture,  vapor,  evaporate,  bemuse,  breathed,  lethe,  diffusive,  blurring,  amorphous,  elusive,  peerless,  peroxide,  platinum,  exclusive,  edition,  twentieth,  limited,  bedazzle,  gate,  pianissimo,  imperceptibly,  imperceptible,  sink,  dishwasher,  autoclave,  cooker,  cookware,  saucepan,  translucent,  columbia,  renovated,  loft,  prefatory,  compliant,  manageable,  receding,  scattered,  minor,  reduced,  defuse,  preliminary,  pumice,  pilates,  scanned,  preview,  translational
Literary analysis:
In literary works the notion of “drizzle” often transcends its literal meteorological meaning to evoke a subtle, washed‐out color that saturates the atmosphere with muted, melancholic hues. Authors use drizzle not simply to indicate light rain but to paint an entire scene in soft, spectral grays and pallid tones that mirror the characters’ inner moods and the subdued quality of their surroundings. For instance, in Sister Carrie [1] the long drizzle becomes emblematic of a muted, urban palette, while Conrad in Lord Jim [2] employs a thin, cold drizzle to suffuse the backdrop with an almost tangible chill. Other writers similarly use drizzle as a diffuse, color-like overlay that blurs the lines between sky and earth and imbues the narrative with a lingering, reflective gloom [3, 4].
  1. The long drizzle had begun.
    — from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
  2. A thin cold drizzle was driving into their faces.
    — from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  3. what will my dear old mother say?" groaned the poor boy, with face grey as his own Border hills in a November drizzle.
    — from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang
  4. The thick drizzle which had hung over the land the day before was gone, and he faced a clear, bright morning, though the breeze had an icy snap.
    — from The Time Traders by Andre Norton


Colors associated with the word:
Gray 
Silver 
Light Blue
Pale blue
Cloudy White
Slate gray
Ash gray
Steel blue
Words with similar colors:
condensating,  wait,  amnesia,  condensation,  geyser,  wednesday,  inhaled,  shortterm,  rectifying,  teared,  aerosol,  hypothesize,  vapour,  lithium,  fractional,  tubule,  glial,  evaporator,  vaporization,  extricate


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