Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Characterized by, full of, or bringing rain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding with or giving out rain; dropping with or as if with rain; showery: as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season; a rainy sky.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Abounding with rain; wet; showery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of weather) wet by periods of rain

Etymologies

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rain +‎ -y

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Examples

  • In the winter they rise higher, showing some connexion with the rainy season in the _rainy_ region.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

  • She must have sold a bond left to her by a friend some years ago, which she called her rainy-day legacy.

    The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story Mary F. Leonard

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

  • As it was, to my death I carried an injured shoulder that ached and went lame in rainy weather and that was a mark of is handiwork.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

  • From Pat in rainy Roanoke, low 30's ... time for another cup of coffee.

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

  • So this is confusing, since everything I read says SMA is a dry climate with humidity around 15% .... and yes, I've read it's higher in rainy season, but 85%?

    San Miguel de Allende Humidity 2009

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