showery

comparative showerier · superlative showeriest

1. Given to showers; having frequent rainfall.

   The sun came out after what had been a showery morning, allowing the celebration to take place in the garden.

   2007, William Trevor, “The Children”, in Cheating at Canasta, New York: Viking, pages 157–8

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   A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.

   1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Problem”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC, page 52

2. Of or relating to a shower or showers.

   Over their heads a crystal firmament, / Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure / Amber, and colours of the showery arch.

   1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 757-9

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   She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing.

   1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998