RAINY (rainier, rainiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: rainier    , rainiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rainy mean? 

• RAINY (adjective)
  The adjective RAINY has 1 sense:

1. (of weather) wet by periods of rain

  Familiarity information: RAINY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAINY (adjective)

Comparative: rainier   
Superlative: rainiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of weather) wet by periods of rain

Synonyms:

rainy; showery

Context example:

rainy days

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 

Grasses green up in the rainy season.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The scientists found that it would take around 50 million years to create a 300-foot depression at Titan's relatively rainy polar regions, consistent with the youthful age of the moon's surface.

(The Mysterious 'Lakes' on Saturn's Moon Titan, NASA)

It's been a mystery why the rainy season begins when it does in the Amazon south of the equator.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

“One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron,” says David Ehrenreich, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

And it won’t be comfortable in the boat rowing and sailing in this rainy weather.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was hurried upon my last visit by the approach of the rainy season and by the exhaustion of my supplies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to insecticide-treated bed nets, certain drugs can help prevent malaria in infants during the rainy season.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Rainy days I spend in the Louvre, revelling in pictures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Diana took the word—"Do you mean," she asked, "that we have now given you what aid you require? and that we may dismiss you to the moor and the rainy night?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)