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# rainy

«rainy» in Mova's school dictionary: **with a lot of rain: a rainy day, a rainy country** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (rainy, rainier, rainiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rainy means with a lot of rain: a rainy day, a rainy country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#m1)

2) A rainy season is the time of year when it rains most. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, rainy places have wet climates; tropical areas have a rainy season and a dry season. In everyday life, rainy days mean indoor games, umbrellas and wellies. Phrases: a rainy day, rainy season, save for a rainy day (save money for when you will need it).

### examples

- It was a rainy morning, so we played inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x1)
- Take an umbrella, it looks rainy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x2)
- Ireland is a rainy country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x3)
- In the rainy season, rivers flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x4)
- I like reading on rainy days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x5)
- Save some pocket money for a rainy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x6)
- The rainiest month here is November. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x7)
- Rainy weather makes the roads slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x8)
- It was late in the autumn, with rainy and cloudy weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/#x9)

### note

Comparative: rainier, rainiest. Do not confuse rainy with raining (verb: «It is raining») or rain (noun). «Saving for a rainy day» is not about weather.

### In the corpora

- [He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/1/)
- [You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/0/)
- [Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/5/)
- [After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/5/)
- [Being wet makes you cold quickly, so a waterproof coat and boots are worn on rainy days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/79-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rainy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.