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sprinkling
noun
1 sprinkling
A small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly:
— A sprinkling of grey at his temples.
synonym: scattering.
Roget 32:
smallness
etc.
adj.;
littleness
etc.
(small size)
193;
tenuity;
paucity;
fewness
etc.
(small number)
103;
meanness,
insignificance
(unimportance)
643;
mediocrity,
moderation.
small quantity,
modicum,
trace,
hint,
minimum;
vanishing point;
material point,
atom,
particle,
molecule,
corpuscle,
point,
speck,
dot,
mote,
jot,
iota,
ace;
minutiae,
details;
look,
thought,
idea,
soupcon,
dab,
dight†,
whit,
tittle,
shade,
shadow;
spark,
scintilla,
gleam;
touch,
cast;
grain,
scruple,
granule,
globule,
minim,
sup,
sip,
sop,
spice,
drop,
droplet,
sprinkling,
dash,
morceau†,
screed,
smack,
tinge,
tincture;
inch,
patch,
scantling,
tatter,
cantlet†,
flitter,
gobbet†,
mite,
bit,
morsel,
crumb,
seed,
fritter,
shive†;
snip,
snippet;
snick†,
snack,
snatch,
slip,
scrag†;
chip,
chipping;
shiver,
sliver,
driblet,
clipping,
paring,
shaving,
hair.
nutshell;
thimbleful,
spoonful,
handful,
capful,
mouthful;
fragment;
fraction
etc.
(part)
51;
drop in the ocean.
animalcule
etc.
193.
trifle
etc.
(unimportant thing)
643;
mere nothing,
next to nothing;
hardly anything;
just enough to swear by;
the shadow of a shade.
finiteness,
finite quantity.
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Roget 41:
mixture,
admixture,
commixture,
commixtion†;
commixion†,
intermixture,
alloyage†,
matrimony;
junction
etc.
43;
combination
etc.
48;
miscegenation.
impregnation;
infusion,
diffusion suffusion,
transfusion;
infiltration;
seasoning,
sprinkling,
interlarding;
interpolation;
etc.
228
adulteration,
sophistication.
[Thing mixed]
tinge,
tincture,
touch,
dash,
smack,
sprinkling,
spice,
seasoning,
infusion,
soupcon.
[Compound resulting from mixture]
alloy,
amalgam;
brass,
chowchow†,
pewter;
magma,
half-and-half,
melange,
tertium quid [Lat.],
miscellany,
ambigu†,
medley,
mess,
hotchpot†,
pasticcio†,
patchwork,
odds and ends,
all sorts;
jumble
etc.
(disorder)
59;
salad,
sauce,
mash,
omnium gatherum [Lat.],
gallimaufry,
olla-podrida†,
olio,
salmagundi,
potpourri,
Noah's ark,
caldron texture,
mingled yarn;
mosaic
etc.
(variegation)
440.
half-blood,
half-caste.
mulatto;
terceron†,
quarteron†,
quinteron†
&c.;
quadroon,
octoroon;
griffo†,
zambo†;
cafuzo†;
Eurasian;
fustee†,
fustie†;
griffe,
ladino†,
marabou,
mestee†,
mestizo,
quintroon,
sacatra zebrule [Lat.];
catalo†;
cross,
hybrid,
mongrel.
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2 sprinkling
A light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby.
synonyms: scattering, sprinkle.
3 sprinkling
The act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare).
synonym: aspersion.
4 sprinkling
The act of sprinkling or splashing water:
— Baptized with a sprinkling of holy water.
synonyms: sparge, sprinkle.
Moby thesaurus: a few, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, attenuation, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, bath, bathing, bedewing, broadcast, broadcasting, cast, chrismal, christening, circumfusion, dampening, damping, dash, deluge, dewing, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, drowning, dust, evaporation, expansion, few, flooding, font, fragmentation, gleam, handful, hint, hosing, hosing down, humidification, idea, immersion, infusion, inkling, intimation, inundation, irrigation, laving, lick, limited number, look, moistening, only a few, peppering, piddling few, piddling number, powdering, propagation, publication, radiation, rinsing, sauce, scattering, scatterment, scintilla, seasoning, shade, shadow, shotgun pattern, sip, smack, small number, smatter, smattering, smell, soupcon, sowing, sparging, spark, spatter, spattering, spice, splashing, splattering, splay, spraying, spread, spreading, strain, streak, strewing, submersion, suggestion, sup, suspicion, swashing, taint, taste, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, too few, total immersion, touch, trace, trickle, vestige, volatilization, watering, wetting ... show more.
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