SHOWERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does showery mean? 

• SHOWERY (adjective)
  The adjective SHOWERY has 1 sense:

1. (of weather) wet by periods of rain

  Familiarity information: SHOWERY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOWERY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of weather) wet by periods of rain

Synonyms:

rainy; showery

Context example:

rainy days

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

shower (a brief period of precipitation)

 Context examples 

In the first place, I was so afraid it would rain this morning, just as I wanted to set off; it looked very showery, and that would have thrown me into agonies!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The private balls at the park then began; and parties on the water were made and accomplished as often as a showery October would allow.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)