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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

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rain +‎ -y

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