rainier; rainiest
: marked by, abounding with, or bringing rain
rainy weather
Examples of rainy in a Sentence
found that the stretch of cold, rainy weather made his joints swell and ache
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Eighteen months ago, the Jewish Museum London, which occupied an idiosyncratic, homely town house in Camden, where my wife and I used to take our kids on rainy weekends, closed its doors for lack of funding.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, social media users watching from home couldn't resist commenting on the rainy event.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Fellow commenters have been quick to respond too rainy, too cold… what now, too much Joe Notebloom?
—Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Cold snowy winters and rainy springs also dim young eaglets’ chances of survival.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, social media users watching from home couldn't resist commenting on the rainy event.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Fellow commenters have been quick to respond too rainy, too cold… what now, too much Joe Notebloom?
—Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Cold snowy winters and rainy springs also dim young eaglets’ chances of survival.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Rainy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rainy. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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Rainy
geographical name
river 80 miles (129 kilometers) long on the Canada–U.S. boundary between Ontario and Minnesota flowing from Rainy Lake into Lake of the Woods
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