rainswept
Soaked by downpour
Rainswept describes a place or landscape exposed to driving rain, typically windblown and desolate: the rainswept moors of Scotland, a rainswept highway.
The word evokes bleakness and atmospheric drama—coastlines, hillsides, open terrain battered by weather.
It appears almost exclusively in descriptive or literary contexts.
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
- drippingRendered cooking fat
wet · soaking · dampened · damp · doused · drenched · soggy · bedraggled
Wildly, coldly windy
- gustyMarked by sudden drafts
- overcastSky fully veiled
- drizzleVery light precipitation
- mistFine airborne moisture
squall · tempest · downpour · cloudburst · deluge · windswept · stormy · grey
soaked
Thoroughly wet throughout
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- soddenSaturated with liquid
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
dripping · wet · soaking · dampened · damp · doused · drenched · soggy · bedraggled · slick
blustery
Wildly, coldly windy
mist · squall · tempest · downpour · cloudburst · deluge · windswept · stormy · grey · bleak
gloomy
Dark and dispiriting
forlorn · desolate · morose · plaintive · mournful · somber · reflective · yearning · brooding · lonely
windblown
Displaced by gusts
- exposedOut in open
- weather-beatenDamaged by outdoor exposure
- batteredDamaged by repeated blows
eroded · worn · scoured · bleached · rugged · raw · stripped · beaten · aged · patina