showery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++show·er·y /ˈʃaʊəri $ ˈʃaʊri/ adjective HEMraining frequently for short periods 多阵雨的 a showery day 多阵雨的一天
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showery• East Anglia: Bright, mainly dry, becoming showery.• Frontal zones gave periods of rain followed by brighter, more showery conditions.• A showery day, as I recall.• At mid-morning the traffic was heavy, slowed down by the showery outbreak.• The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s.• Northern Ireland will have continuous and heavy rain but gradually become more showery with thunder likely.show·er·y adjectiveChineseSyllable
for short Corpus periods frequently raining
showery
show‧er‧y /ˈʃaʊəri $ ˈʃaʊri/
adjective
raining frequently for short periods:
a showery day
▪ 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 rainy mean 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.
show‧er‧y /ˈʃaʊəri $ ˈʃaʊri/
adjectiveraining frequently for short periods:
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