I was utterly soaked by the downpour.
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Downpour
Synonyms for "downpour" (107 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
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9 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
103 translations across 50 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄμβρος noun (heavy rain)
Arabic
4 entries- شُؤْبُوب noun (heavy rain)
- مَطَر غَزِير noun (heavy rain)
- هُطُول noun (heavy rain)
- وَابِل noun (heavy rain)
Armenian
1 entries- տարափ noun (heavy rain)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- leysan noun (heavy rain)
Belarusian
4 entries- дажджы́шча noun (heavy rain)
- зале́ва noun (heavy rain)
- лі́вень noun (heavy rain)
- уле́ва noun (heavy rain)
Bulgarian
2 entries- поро́ен дъжд noun (heavy rain)
- поро́й noun (heavy rain)
Catalan
1 entries- xàfec noun (heavy rain)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 傾盆大雨 /倾盆大雨 noun (heavy rain)
- 大雨 noun (heavy rain)
- 瓢潑大雨 /瓢泼大雨 noun (heavy rain)
Czech
1 entries- liják noun (heavy rain)
Danish
3 entries- regnskyl noun (heavy rain)
- styrtregn noun (heavy rain)
- øsregn noun (heavy rain)
Dutch
1 entries- wolkbreuk noun (heavy rain)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝaŭro noun (heavy rain)
Finnish
2 entries- kaatosade noun (heavy rain)
- rankkasade noun (heavy rain)
French
3 entries- averse noun (heavy rain)
- trombe noun (heavy rain)
- pleuvoir à verse verb (rain heavily)
Galician
4 entries- ballón noun (heavy rain)
- cairo noun (heavy rain)
- chuvascada noun (heavy rain)
- chuvasco noun (heavy rain)
German
2 entries- Platzregen noun (heavy rain)
- Regenguss noun (heavy rain)
Greek
1 entries- νεροποντή noun (heavy rain)
Hungarian
3 entries- felhőszakadás noun (heavy rain)
- zivatar noun (heavy rain)
- zápor noun (heavy rain)
Ido
1 entries- pluvego noun (heavy rain)
Indonesian
1 entries- hujan lebat noun (heavy rain)
Irish
1 entries- duartan noun (heavy rain)
Italian
4 entries- acquazzone noun (heavy rain)
- diluvio noun (heavy rain)
- nubifragio noun (heavy rain)
- rovescio noun (heavy rain)
Japanese
2 entries- 土砂降り noun (heavy rain)
- 大雨 noun (heavy rain)
Kazakh
2 entries- нөсер noun (heavy rain)
- нөсер жаңбыр noun (heavy rain)
Korean
3 entries- 큰 비 noun (heavy rain)
- 폭우 noun (heavy rain)
- 호우 noun (heavy rain)
Macedonian
3 entries- по́роен дожд noun (heavy rain)
- по́рој noun (heavy rain)
- по́ројник noun (heavy rain)
Malay
1 entries- hujan lebat noun (heavy rain)
Māori
1 entries- patapataiāwhā noun (heavy rain)
Norman
2 entries- dêcliaitchie noun (heavy rain)
- dêtchèrque noun (heavy rain)
Norn
1 entries- ålup noun (heavy rain)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- regnskyll noun (heavy rain)
- øsregn noun (heavy rain)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- pøsregn noun (heavy rain)
- styrtregn noun (heavy rain)
Occitan
1 entries- marcejada noun (heavy rain)
Old Prussian
1 entries- suge noun (heavy rain)
Polish
1 entries- ulewa noun (heavy rain)
Portuguese
4 entries- aguaceiro noun (heavy rain)
- chuvada noun (heavy rain)
- temporal noun (heavy rain)
- toró noun (heavy rain)
Romanian
2 entries- aversă noun (heavy rain)
- ploaie torențială noun (heavy rain)
Russian
2 entries- ли́вень noun (heavy rain)
- проливно́й дождь noun (heavy rain)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jaka kiša noun (heavy rain)
- pljusak noun (heavy rain)
Slovak
1 entries- lejak noun (heavy rain)
Slovene
2 entries- naliv noun (heavy rain)
- ploha noun (heavy rain)
Spanish
4 entries- aguacero noun (heavy rain)
- chaparrón noun (heavy rain)
- chubasco noun (heavy rain)
- jarreo noun (heavy rain)
Swedish
1 entries- ösregn noun (heavy rain)
Turkish
1 entries- sağanak noun (heavy rain)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎂𐎌𐎎 noun (heavy rain)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зали́ва noun (heavy rain)
- зли́ва noun (heavy rain)
- ли́вень noun (heavy rain)
- про́ливень noun (heavy rain)
Uzbek
1 entries- jala noun (heavy rain)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mưa rào noun (heavy rain)
Welsh
2 entries- curlaw noun (heavy rain)
- tywalltiad noun (heavy rain)
Yiddish
1 entries- שלאַקסרעגן noun (heavy rain)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Judging from the present look of the sky, we may have a downpour any moment.
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There's going to be a downpour.
Source: tatoeba (535426)
Tom was soaked through after being caught in an unexpected downpour.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.