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Rainy vs Raining - What's the difference?

rainy | raining |

Raining is a synonym of rainy.



As an adjective rainy

is abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

As a verb raining is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun raining is

a fall of rain.

rainy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

    • raining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall of rain.
  • * 2013 , Maite Ezcurdia, ?Robert J. Stainton, The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy (page 363)
    • This is a way of saying that the subatomic structure of the verb “to rain” explicitly marks rainings as a kind of change that places undergo.

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