brooklet
Small flowing water
A brooklet is a small brook—a tiny stream of water.
The word is literary and diminutive, suggesting something delicate or picturesque: A brooklet trickled through the meadow.
It appears more often in poetry and nature writing than everyday speech.
Steady continuous flow
- creekNarrow natural watercourse
- rivuletVery small stream
- rillVery small stream
- runnelSmall flowing waterway
tributary · channel · streamlet · watercourse · freshet · spring · headwater · confluence
Unbroken forward movement
- rippleMinor surface disturbance
- eddyCircular counter-current
- currentDirected flow of charge
- meanderTo travel without direction
trickle · cascade · swirl · undulate · wavelet · surge · drift · glide
stream
Steady continuous flow
runnel · tributary · channel · streamlet · watercourse · freshet · spring · headwater · confluence · ford
flow
Unbroken forward movement
meander · trickle · cascade · swirl · undulate · wavelet · surge · drift · glide · shimmer
babble
Incoherent speech
trickle · splash · purl · ripple · tinkle · whisper · chatter · prattle · plash · susurrus
serene
Untroubled and composed
calm · idyllic · soothing · pastoral · bucolic · quiet · still · restful · sylvan · secluded
- streamsstream, creek, rivers, tributary, creeks
- drainagedrain, drains, drainage ditch, drain pipe, floor drains
brookletriver
Large flowing watercourse
ocean · sea · Amazon River · torrent · Mississippi River