Synonyms of rivulets

rivulets

noun

plural of rivulet

as in creeks

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creeks
• brooks
• streams
• rills
• streamlets
• tributaries
• runnels
• runs
• canals
• bayous
• becks
• burns
• gills
• brooklets
• freshets
• arroyos
• runoffs
• bourns
• bournes
• watercourses
• washes
• sloughs
• runlets
• coulees
• waterways
• slues
• channels
• billabongs
• freshes
• races
• distributaries
• slews
• cutoffs
• branches
• affluents
• guts
• influents
• kills
• cuts
• millraces
• millstreams
• confluents

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of rivulets

In some places, the rivulets had merged to form streams that had to be jumped across. —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024