Nature and science
Describing the Weather
Twelve ways to describe a sky, most of them not sunny.
- Teens and up
- Confident · B2
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- nice
- pleasant and agreeable
- foggy
- filled with thick cloud near the ground
- calm
- quiet and relaxed, not upset or excited
- great
- very good, or very large
- icy
- covered in frozen water, or very cold
- breezy
- pleasantly windy
- arid
- so dry that little can grow
- arctic
- extremely cold and icy
- humid
- warm and damp, with a lot of moisture in the air
- overcast
- covered with cloud
- damp
- slightly wet
- wintry
- cold and bleak, like the coldest season
