Adjective
showery (comparative showerier, superlative showeriest)
- Given to showers; having frequent rainfall.
2007, William Trevor, “The Children”, in Cheating at Canasta, New York: Viking, pages 157–8:The sun came out after what had been a showery morning, allowing the celebration to take place in the garden.
- Of or relating to a shower or showers.
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 757-9:Over their heads a crystal firmament, / Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure / Amber, and colours of the showery arch.
1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing.