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What is the adjective for rainfall?

What's the adjective for rainfall? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs rain and rain out which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

rainsome
  1. (chiefly archaic) Marked by rain or raininess; rainy
rainy
  1. Pouring with rain; wet; showery
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drizzly, pouring, stormy, wet, damp, drizzling, precipitating, showery, moist, raining, inclement, humid, clammy, misty, dank, muggy, soggy, dripping, sticky, saturated, soaking, dampish, sweaty, steamy, oozy, dewy, wettish, irriguous, drippy, moisture-laden, teeming, bucketing, not dry, sultry, soaked, drenched, sodden, waterlogged, sopping, moistened, dampened, foggy, cloudy, vaporous, wetted, claggy, bathed, mucky, slimy, watery … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The rate of infection has accelerated dramatically with the onset of the rainy season.”
      “We discuss the inclusion or the absence of an umbrella in film, as well as other rainy matters.”
      “The ambulance wailing, the children screeching, and the stray dogs barking on Underwood Avenue on a rainy day.”
rainswept
  1. Describing a place where it is raining heavily
  2. Examples:
      3. “With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel.”
      “Tucking in behind his rival on the rainswept circuit, he audaciously out-braked him on the inside of the final bend to steal ahead and win.”
      “The gala screening took place in a rainswept Leicester Square in the presence of many celebrities.”
rainfed
  1. (of land etc) Supplied with water by rain (only).
  2. Examples:
      3. “Telica's farmers are reliant on a limited number of rainfed crops, namely beans and maize.”
      “With limited potential and difficult climate conditions, efforts to develop rainfed crop sectors have not been fruitful so far.”
      “Ranobe has to depend mainly on rainfed crops and is very vulnerable in the case of any rainfall deficit.”
raintight
  1. So tight as to exclude rain.
  2. Examples:
      3. “In a comfortless, filthy house, ill-furnished, often neither raintight nor warm, no domestic comfort is possible.”
rainfast
  1. (of a surface coating or chemical spray) That is not washed off by the rain
rainstormy
  1. Undergoing a rainstorm.
rainwashed
  1. washed by the rain
  2. Examples:
      3. “In a burger bar lit by primary colours and over-enthusiastic plastic, in a rainwashed seaside northern town, circled by gulls.”
      “An annual climber, every day at least one flower untwists to show the colour of a rainwashed blue sky, and by the evening it curls up again, reverting to a darkening purple.”
      “A palace of solid marble, rainwashed, simply looks bedraggled.”
rainlike
  1. Resembling rain.
rainsoaked
  1. Soaked by rain.
rainless
  1. Without rain.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. arid, parched, waterless, dehydrated, baked, desiccated, torrid, droughty, thirsty, sear, desert, barren, anhydrous, drained, evaporated, athirst, depleted, desiccant, exhausted, sapped, hard, juiceless, sapless, unmoistened, shrivelled, shriveled, bare, bald, dusty, impoverished, stale, dried-up, not irrigated, sere, moistureless, scorched, bone-dry, torrefied, dry, bone dry, dried up, dried out, dry as dust, dry as a bone, dried, withered, seared, burnt, burned, exsiccated … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The country's weather bureau has warned that the rainless weather was a cause for concern.”
      “The weather will be changeably cloudy, occasionally gloomy and mainly rainless in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula.”
      “Despite all reports to the contrary it's still possible to get sunny, rainless weather in the Bay of Islands.”
rainier
  1. comparative form of rainy: more rainy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drizzlier, stormier, wetter, damper, showerier, moister, more inclement, more turbulent, more tempestuous, squallier, more blustery, rougher, windier, gustier, bleaker, wilder, fouler, more thundery, more blustering, more raging, rawer, more overcast, nastier, more stormful, murkier, blowier, colder, more tumultuous, cloudier, choppier, ruggeder, unpleasanter, more disagreeable, gloomier, mistier, grayer, greyer, darker, angrier, badder, more menacing, torrider, more storm-wracked, more boisterous, filthier, foggier, more furious, bitterer, dirtier, more clouded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Over time, such changes can be expected to make Canada a rainier but less snowy place.”
      “In the rainier west the hills bear vegetation, but they are barren and stony in the east.”
      “The southern half of the country, for the most part, has become less snowy but rainier.”
rainiest
  1. superlative form of rainy: most rainy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drizzliest, stormiest, wettest, dampest, showeriest, moistest, most inclement, most turbulent, most tempestuous, squalliest, most blustery, roughest, windiest, gustiest, bleakest, wildest, foulest, most thundery, most blustering, most raging, rawest, most overcast, nastiest, most stormful, murkiest, blowiest, coldest, most tumultuous, cloudiest, choppiest, ruggedest, unpleasantest, most disagreeable, gloomiest, mistiest, greyest, grayest, darkest, angriest, baddest, most menacing, torridest, most storm-wracked, most boisterous, filthiest, foggiest, most furious, bitterest, dirtiest, most clouded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Late summer and autumn are the rainiest seasons, but precipitation falls throughout the year.”
      “I'll always remember the next day, the rainiest Wednesday in the history of Januaries.”
      “Parts of the park receive up to 6,000mm of precipitation a year, making it one of the rainiest places on earth.”
rained
  1. simple past tense and past participle of rain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. poured, showered, fell, felled, fallen, drizzled, precipitated, stormed, teemed, dropped, lavished, spitted, spat, deluged, heaped, pelted, sleeted, bombarded, bucketed, deposited, hailed, pattered, peppered, sprinkled, streamed, pelted down, rained down, beat down, beaten down, bucketed down, poured down, sheeted down, lashed down, teemed down, tipped down, tippled down, came down, come down, came down in sheets, come down in sheets, came down in torrents, come down in torrents, came down in bucketloads, come down in bucketloads, came down in buckets, come down in buckets, came down in stair rods, come down in stair rods, rained cats and dogs … more
raining
  1. present participle of rain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pouring, showering, falling, drizzling, precipitating, storming, teeming, dropping, lavishing, spitting, deluging, heaping, pelting, sleeting, bombarding, bucketing, depositing, hailing, pattering, peppering, sprinkling, streaming, pelting down, raining down, beating down, bucketing down, pouring down, sheeting down, lashing down, teeming down, tipping down, tippling down, coming down, coming down in sheets, coming down in torrents, coming down in bucketloads, coming down in buckets, coming down in stair rods, raining cats and dogs … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Today is a perfect day for staying indoors because it's raining heavily outside.”
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