driblet

1. 1.

   a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)

   “he had a drop too much to drink”

   “a drop of each sample was analyzed”

   “there is not a drop of pity in that man”

   “years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet”

   Synonymsdropdrib

   Broadersmall indefinite quantity

   Narrowertearraindropdropleteyedrop

Other forms of driblet

plural

driblets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about driblet

What does driblet mean?

driblet means "a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)".

How many syllables are in driblet?

driblet has 2 syllables: dri-blet. The stress falls on "dri".

What is another word for driblet?

Close synonyms include drop, drib. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is driblet a common word?

driblet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.