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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rainy \Rain"y\ (r[=a]n"[y^]), adjective [AS. regenig.] Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rainy
adjective
1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: {showery}]
2: marked by rain; "their vacation turned out to be a series of rainy days" [syn: {pluvial}, {pluvious}] [also: {rainiest}, {rainier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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