brooklets
Small flowing waters
Brooklets are small brooks—tiny streams or rivulets of water.
The diminutive suffix gives the word a gentle, picturesque quality, making it common in nature writing and poetry: Brooklets trickled down the mountainside.
Continuous flows of something
- rivuletsVery small streams
- rillsSmall, narrow streams
- creeksSmall natural watercourses
- tricklesFlows in drops
runoffs · springs · freshets · streamlets · channels · currents · flows · waters
Incoherent or infantile speech
- gurglingBubbling liquid sound
- tricklingFlowing in thin stream
- murmuringSpeaking softly, indistinctly
- burblingMaking murmuring water sounds
splashing · tinkling · rippling · whispering · chattering · purling · gentle · melodic
streams
Continuous flows of something
trickles · runoffs · springs · freshets · streamlets · channels · currents · flows · waters · cascades
babbling
Incoherent or infantile speech
burbling · splashing · tinkling · rippling · whispering · chattering · purling · gentle · melodic · soothing
meadows
Grassland for grazing
dells · woodlands · pastures · hillsides · clearings · ravines · copses · groves · ferns · mosses
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
rustic · Arcadian · poetic · serene · tranquil · unspoiled · picturesque · sylvan · enchanted · meandering
brookletsrivers
Flowing bodies of water
oceans · seas · major rivers · torrents · floods
brookletslakes
Large inland water bodies
oceans · seas · still waters · standing water · ponds