Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by heavy rainfall; rainy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rainy; pluvial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the condition of heavy
rain ; rainy.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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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 Various
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She was pale, the lips pressed tight, the pluvious eyes blinking rapidly.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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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
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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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. 1839
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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.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
reesetee commented on the word pluvious
Characterized by heavy rainfall; rainy.
February 2, 2007
dewiclark29 commented on the word pluvious
ploo-vee-uhs
adjective of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
September 22, 2008