SLEETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleety mean? 

• SLEETY (adjective)
  The adjective SLEETY has 1 sense:

1. consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain

  Familiarity information: SLEETY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEETY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain

Similar:

frozen (turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold)

Derivation:

sleet (partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow))

 Context examples 

Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)