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RAINY
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Irregular inflected forms: rainier , rainiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of weather) wet by periods of rain
Example:
rainy days
Synonyms:
rainy; showery
Classified under:
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
rain (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)
rain (drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds)
Context examples:
Changes in rainy and dry seasons are already disrupting fish dynamics and making their effects felt by local communities.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
That is certainly remarkable, as the night was rainy, cloudy, and dark.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Outbreaks occur in the rainy season.
(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
As an added bonus, the researchers discovered that their light absorbers work even under the low levels of sunlight on a rainy or overcast day.
(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)
They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set; and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The research team analysed the influence of ultrafine particles on cloud cycles in the rainforest during the 2014 rainy season, when there were no forest fires and the only source of pollution was Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon.
(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)
A rainy night had been followed by a glorious morning, and the heath-covered countryside, with the glowing clumps of flowering gorse, seemed all the more beautiful to eyes which were weary of the duns and drabs and slate greys of London.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spoke of his friend's dislike of the burning heats, the hurricanes, and rainy seasons of that region.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But they don't occur till December or January, while the rainy season currently starts in mid-October — two or three months earlier.
(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)
As it was a rainy day, she went upstairs to amuse herself in one of the large chambers, and took Polly with her for company.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
