rainy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: rain=y
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

rainy, a. [AS. regenig.].

 Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rainy, adj. (rainier, rainiest)
1 (of weather, a climate, day, region, etc.) in or on which rain is falling or much rain usually falls.
2 (of cloud, wind, etc.) laden with or bringing rain.

Idiom

rainy day a time of special need in the future.

Derivative

rainily adv. raininess n.

Etymology

OE renig (as RAIN)

THESAURUS

rainy

angry, blinding, boggy, cat-and-doggish, cloudy, cyclonic, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, dirty, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, fenny, foul, humid, marshy, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, moist, muggy, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, pouring, raging, roric, roriferous, showery, sticky, storming, stormy, streaming, swampy, tacky, tempestuous, tornadic, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, undried, wet, wettish

ROGET THESAURUS

rainy

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.