rainy
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 →
2) A rainy season is the time of year when it rains most. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Proverbs compares a quarrelsome wife to a constant drip on a rainy day. This is read as a warning about the harm of constant arguing. In the primary 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
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; (Writings PRO.27.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- It was a rainy morning, so we played inside. tree →
- Take an umbrella, it looks rainy. tree →
- Ireland is a rainy country. tree →
- In the rainy season, rivers flood. tree →
- I like reading on rainy days. tree →
- Save some pocket money for a rainy day. tree →
- The rainiest month here is November. tree →
- Rainy weather makes the roads slippery. tree →
- It was late in the autumn, with rainy and cloudy weather. tree →
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
- A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
- He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness.
- You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.
- Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
- After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rainy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.