rainstorm

The word “rainstorm” has 2 syllables: rain-storm

It's pronounced as /reɪnstɔrm/


What is synonym and antonym for rainstorm?

In the thesaurus, “rainstorm” has 47 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rainstorm along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rainstorm

  • cat-and-dog weather
  • cloudburst
  • condensation
  • deluge
  • downfall
  • downpour
  • drencher
  • drizzle
  • fall
  • flood
  • flurry
  • hail
  • hailstorm
  • heavy dew
  • inundation
  • liquid sunshine
  • mist
  • monsoon
  • pour
  • pouring
  • precip
  • precipitation
  • rain
  • raindrops
  • rainfall
  • sheets
  • shower
  • showers
  • sleet
  • snow
  • spate
  • spit
  • sprinkle
  • sprinkling
  • storm
  • stream
  • sun shower
  • thundershower
  • thunderstorm
  • torrent
  • torrential rain
  • volley
  • weather
  • wet
  • wet stuff
  • wetness
  • window washer

Antonyms for rainstorm

  • aridity
  • drizzle
  • dryness
  • mist
  • mizzle
  • scud
  • spit
  • sprinkle

Meanings of rainstorm

  • noun
    1. A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

Example Sentences

  • We had to postpone our outdoor event due to a sudden rainstorm.
  • The farmers welcomed the refreshing rainstorm after weeks of drought.
  • Driving in a severe rainstorm requires extra caution and reduced speed.
  • Our tent leaked during the night because of the intense rainstorm.
  • Despite the forecast predicting a mild shower, it turned into a fierce rainstorm within minutes.

On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rainstorm, such as: aridity, cat-and-dog weather, cloudburst, condensation, deluge, downfall, downpour.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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vagrancy

  • bee
  • brainstorm
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • conceit
  • concept
  • conception
  • crank
  • fancifulness
  • fancy
  • fantasy
  • freak
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  • homelessness
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  • notion
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  • picture
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  • vagabondage
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  • whim
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  • whimsicality
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call in

  • abjure
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  • seek advice
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  • talk over
  • toll
  • toss ideas around
  • trade in
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  • turn to
  • unite
  • unsay
  • use
  • win back
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abstractions

  • apprehensions
  • assumptions
  • beliefs
  • brain waves
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • caprices
  • chimeras
  • cogitations
  • cognitions
  • conceits
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • conclusions
  • conjectures
  • convictions
  • delusions
  • fancies
  • fantasms
  • freaks
  • guesses
  • hallucinations
  • hunches
  • hypotheses
  • ideas
  • illusions
  • images
  • impressions
  • inspirations
  • intellections
  • kinks
  • notions
  • observations
  • perceptions
  • phantasms
  • pictures
  • preconceptions
  • prejudices
  • premonitions
  • prepossessions
  • presentiments
  • reflections
  • speculations
  • suppositions
  • surmises
  • theories
  • thoughts
  • vagaries
  • whims

access

  • accession
  • admission
  • admittance
  • agitation
  • approach
  • approval
  • attack
  • authorization
  • avenue
  • bout
  • brainstorm
  • breakdown
  • case
  • certification
  • collapse
  • connection
  • contact
  • convulsion
  • course
  • crash
  • door
  • doorway
  • drop in
  • eclampsia
  • encroach
  • enter
  • entrance
  • entree
  • entry
  • fit
  • frenzy
  • gate-crash
  • gateway
  • in
  • infiltrate
  • infringe
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  • introduction
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  • key
  • open arms
  • open door
  • pang
  • paroxysm
  • passage
  • passport
  • path
  • penetrate
  • permission
  • pierce
  • prostration
  • qualification
  • recurrence
  • relapse
  • road
  • route
  • seizure
  • set foot in
  • siege
  • spasm
  • spell
  • step into
  • throe
  • ticket
  • trespass
  • turn
  • way
  • welcome mat

ideas

  • Weltanschauung
  • abstractions
  • account
  • acmes
  • advice
  • aims
  • ambitions
  • announcement
  • apexes
  • apices
  • apotheoses
  • apprehensions
  • archetypes
  • articles of faith
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  • assumptions
  • beau ideals
  • beliefs
  • bournes
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  • brain waves
  • brainchildren
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  • briefing
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  • caprices
  • chimeras
  • classics
  • cogitations
  • cognitions
  • conceits
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • conclusions
  • conjectures
  • conversation
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  • convictions
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  • culminations
  • culture
  • declaration
  • delusions
  • designs
  • desires
  • destinations
  • directive
  • disclosure
  • dispatch
  • dogma
  • dreams
  • eidola
  • eidolons
  • embodiments
  • ends
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  • essences
  • examples
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  • exemplars
  • fancies
  • fantasms
  • freaks
  • gages
  • gauges
  • goals
  • goods
  • grails
  • guesses
  • guidelines
  • hallucinations
  • holy grails
  • hopes
  • hot story
  • hunches
  • hypotheses
  • ideals
  • illusions
  • images
  • impressions
  • incarnations
  • info
  • information
  • inside story
  • inspirations
  • intellections
  • intelligence
  • intentions
  • intents
  • kinks
  • language
  • lowdown
  • manifestations
  • marks
  • meanings
  • message
  • minds
  • mirrors
  • missive
  • models
  • news
  • nirvanas
  • nonesuches
  • nonpareils
  • note
  • notions
  • objectives
  • objects
  • observations
  • outlook
  • paradigms
  • paragons
  • patron saints
  • patterns
  • peaks
  • perceptions
  • personifications
  • phantasms
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  • philosophy
  • pictures
  • pinks
  • pinnacles
  • pipeline
  • plans
  • plots
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  • preconceptions
  • prejudices
  • premonitions
  • prepossessions
  • presentiments
  • pretensions
  • principles
  • projects
  • prophecy
  • publicity
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  • role models
  • rules
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  • termini
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  • the poop
  • theories
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  • translation
  • utterance
  • vagaries
  • view
  • warning
  • whims
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  • word
  • work
  • zeniths

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