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RAININESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raininess mean? 

RAININESS (noun)
  The noun RAININESS has 1 sense:

1. (of weather) the badness of the weatherplay

  Familiarity information: RAININESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAININESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of weather) the badness of the weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

foulness; raininess

Context example:

they were wearied with the foulness of the weather

Hypernyms ("raininess" is a kind of...):

badness; severeness; severity (used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)


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