单词	showery
释义	showeryshow‧er‧y /ˈʃaʊəri $ ˈʃaʊri/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A showery day, as I recall. At mid-morning the traffic was heavy, slowed down by the showery outbreak. East Anglia: Bright, mainly dry, becoming showery. Frontal zones gave periods of rain followed by brighter, more showery conditions. Northern Ireland will have continuous and heavy rain but gradually become more showery with thunder likely. The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s. Thesaurus THESAURUS► rainy a rainy period of time is one when it rains a lot: · a cold rainy day in October· The weather continued to be rainy.· The rainy season is in July. ► wet rainy. Wet and rainymean the same and are used in the same way: · In Cyprus during the winter, you’ll only have the occasional wet day.· The wet weather is expected to continue.· another wet summer· It's been wet all week. ► damp if the air feels damp, there is a lot of moisture in the air and it may be raining slightly: · It was a cold damp day.· a damp November morning ► showery raining for short periods: · the cool, bright, showery weather of early April· The weather will be showery, with some sunny intervals. ► drizzly raining slightly, with a lot of mist in the air: · The morning was grey and drizzly. ► grey British English, gray American English if the sky is grey, there are a lot clouds, and it looks like it will rain: · The next morning, the sky was grey.· Then, as if by magic, the sun burst through what had until then been a rather grey day. WORD SETS► Meteorology anticyclone, nounarid, adjectivebarometer, nouncirrus, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecloudbank, nouncold front, nouncontrary, adjectivecumulus, nouncyclone, noundeluge, noundepression, nounduster, noundust storm, nounequatorial, adjectivefront, nounfrontal system, nounheadwind, nounhumidity, nounhurricane, nouninversion, nounisobar, nounisotherm, nounjet stream, nounleeward, adjectivelow, nounlow-pressure, nounmaelstrom, nounmirage, nounmonsoon, nounnimbus, nounnorth, adjectivenortheast, adjectivenortheaster, nounnortheasterly, adjectivenortherly, adjectivenorthwest, adjectivenorthwester, nounnorthwesterly, adjectiveonshore, adjectivepeasouper, nounpowder, nounprecipitation, nounrainfall, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounsandstorm, nounsea breeze, nounsemitropical, adjectivesheet lightning, nounshipping forecast, nounshower, nounshowery, adjectivesirocco, nounsleet, nounslush, nounsmog, nounsouth, adjectivesoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutherly, adjectivesouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesprinkle, nounsquall, nounsqually, adjectivestill, adjectivestorm, nounstorm cloud, nounstormy, adjectivestrength, nounsubside, verbsubtropical, adjectivesub-zero, adjectivetailwind, nountempest, nounthaw, verbthaw, nounthermal, nounthermometer, nounthunder, nounthunder, verbthunderbolt, nounthunderclap, nounthundercloud, nounthunderstorm, nounthundery, adjectivetidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountornado, nountorrid, adjectivetrade wind, nountropical, adjectivetrough, nountsunami, nounturbulence, nounturbulent, adjectivetwister, nountyphoon, nounwarm front, nounwaterspout, nounweather, nounweatherman, nounweather vane, nounwest, adjectivewesterly, adjectivewhirlwind, nounwhiteout, noun raining frequently for short periods:  a showery day
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