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, rainyweather ; arainy 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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Examples
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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
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She must have sold a bond left to her by a friend some years ago, which she called her rainy-day legacy.
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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%?
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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.
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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%?
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From Pat in rainy Roanoke, low 30's ... time for another cup of coffee.
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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%?
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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%?
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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%?
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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%?
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