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Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French pluvieus, from Latin pluviōsus, from (aqua) pluvia, rain (water), feminine of pluvius, of rain, from pluere, to rain; see pleu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He once, indeed, wished that they would amend the roof of his book-room, which “rained in” 23 in a very pluvious manner; but receiving no direct answer from our friend Meiklewham, who neither relished the proposal nor saw means of eluding it, the minister quietly made the necessary repairs at his own expense, and gave the heritors no farther trouble on the subject.”
“A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
“She was pale, the lips pressed tight, the pluvious eyes blinking rapidly.”
“Like Chancellor Swithin before him, and like Chancellor Wolsey in a later time, Chancellor Becket was a royal tutor; [35] and like Swithin, who still remains the pluvious saint of humid England, and unlike”
“The fate of many a traveller who has since passed through that pluvious region, was”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
“He once, indeed, wished that they would amend the roof of his book-room, which "rained in" [I-23] in a very pluvious manner; but receiving no direct answer from our friend Meiklewham, who neither relished the proposal nor saw means of eluding it, the minister quietly made the necessary repairs at his own expense, and gave the heritors no farther trouble on the subject.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pluvious’.
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Words beginning with P
peripatetic, pearlescent, perfunctory, palliate, permafrost, prosthetic, pliant, pluvious, percussion, procrastinate, progeria, prognathism and 49 more...
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T'ain't going to drain no more
wordie stoppers: without refrain: stanza on its own: lotion motion: T'ain't going to drain no moor
nanopyle, nanonize, nanocosm, ombromombo, misle(ad), nanostrobos, nanomini, peerl, serein, hyetalous, pelter, sluiciest and 43 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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dewiclark29's list
Words I come across!!!
enervate, equanimity, infovore, protuberance, evanescent, foolhardy, pluvious, fallacious, promulgate, effusive, circumlocution, pulchritudinous and 3 more...
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the dog's bark
woof...
grammaticaster, bunfight, lucubratory, tittuppy, smithereens, debonair, limpet, rivulet, palaver, turd, galligaskins, pluvious and 5 more...
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gerbert's Words
unflappable, semaphore, pusillanimous, succinct, tchotchke, cupidity, nugatory, avarice, yugen, lambast, trifling, indelible and 36 more...
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Describing weather
Words to describe the weather and environment.
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dewiclark29 ploo-vee-uhs
adjective of or pertaining to rain; rainy. Sep 22, 2008
reesetee Characterized by heavy rainfall; rainy. Feb 2, 2007