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100 Words to Describe Rain

June 29, 2026

100 Words to Describe Rain

No. Item Definition
1. bleak cold and miserable
2. blowy windy
3. blustery windy with bursts of rain
4. boggy wet and marshy
5. brooding darkly threatening
6. bucketing raining extremely hard
7. ceaseless never stopping
8. cheerless without brightness or joy
9. chilly unpleasantly cold
10. clammy cold and damp to touch
11. close stuffy and humid
12. constant happening all the time
13. damp slightly wet
14. dim not bright
15. dismal dark, wet, and depressing
16. dreary dull and bleak
17. drenched made very wet
18. dripping falling in drops
19. drippy letting drops fall
20. driving blown hard by wind
21. drizzly with light fine rain
22. drumming beating with repeated drops
23. feathery light and delicate
24. fierce strong and intense
25. fine thin and delicate
26. flooded covered with excess water
27. flooding overflowing with water
28. gentle mild and light
29. gloomy dark and depressing
30. gray dark and cloudy
31. gusty with sudden strong winds
32. harsh severe and unpleasant
33. heavy dense and intense
34. hissing making a soft sibilant sound
35. humid containing much moisture
36. incessant continuing without pause
37. intermittent stopping and starting repeatedly
38. lashing striking hard with rain
39. leaden heavy and gray
40. light not heavy or intense
41. lowering dark and threatening
42. marshy like wet lowland
43. melancholy sad and gloomy
44. miserable very unpleasant and wet
45. misty filled with fine moisture
46. moody changeable and gloomy
47. mucky dirty and wet
48. muddy wet and covered in mud
49. muggy warm and humid
50. murky dark and gloomy
51. nasty unpleasant and rough
52. ominous suggesting bad weather ahead
53. oppressive uncomfortably heavy and humid
54. pattering making light tapping sounds
55. pearly softly pale and lustrous
56. pelting falling hard and fast
57. persistent continuing for a long time
58. pouring raining very heavily
59. puddly full of puddles
60. rain-drenched thoroughly soaked by rain
61. rain-lashed struck hard by rain
62. rain-soaked soaked by rain
63. rain-swept swept by falling rain
64. rain-washed washed clean by rain
65. rainy full of rain
66. rattling making rapid hard sounds
67. raw cold and damp
68. rough harsh and stormy
69. saturated completely soaked
70. sheeting falling in broad sheets
71. showery with frequent short bursts of rain
72. slanting falling at an angle
73. slushy wet with melting snow or rain
74. soaked completely wet
75. soaking making everything very wet
76. sodden thoroughly soaked
77. soggy very wet and soft
78. spitty with light scattered rain
79. squally with sudden windy rainstorms
80. steady continuing evenly
81. stormy with rain and violent weather
82. sunless without sunshine
83. tapping making light repeated knocks
84. teeming raining heavily
85. tempestuous very stormy
86. thin not thick or heavy
87. threatening seeming likely to storm
88. thundery threatening thunder and rain
89. torrential falling in violent quantities
90. trickling flowing in a thin stream
91. unrelenting not easing or stopping
92. violent very forceful
93. washed-out faded or drained by rain
94. waterlogged soaked with water
95. watery thin or full of water
96. weather-beaten worn by rain and wind
97. wet covered with or soaked by water
98. wild rough and uncontrolled
99. windswept exposed to strong wind
100. windy with strong moving air
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