monsoonal.

Relating to seasonal changes in wind that often bring a period of heavy rain.

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Words that belong together

• monsoonal rains
• monsoonal climate

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Monsoonal rains had turned the dusty lanes into channels of brown water.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.