Dry and Rainy

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Dry adjective - Free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet.

Usage example: dry clothes

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Rainy is an antonym for dry.

Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Rainy adjective - Marked by or abounding with rain.

Usage example: found that the cold, rainy weather made his joints swell and ache

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Dry is an antonym for rainy in topics: wet, moist, precipitating.

Nearby Words: rain, rainless, rained, rainstorm, raining

The Ray Bradbury short story "The Long Rain" is about a group of men on the perpetually rainy planet Venus, searching for one of the dry "sun domes" that have been built there.

Source: Madness Mantra
Even warm locations have seasons — the rainy season versus the dry season, for instance.

Source: It's Always Spring
Winter is snowy/icy; Spring is rainy; Summer is hot and green; Fall is dry and a bit spooky.

Source: Seasonal Baggage

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