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snowy

[ snoh-ee ]

adjective

, snow·i·er, snow·i·est.
  1. abounding in or covered with snow:

    snowy fields.

  2. characterized by snow, as the weather:

    a snowy day.

  3. pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling snow.
  4. of the color of snow; snow-white:

    snowy skin.

  5. immaculate; unsullied.


snowy

/ ˈsnəʊɪ /

adjective

  1. covered with or abounding in snow

    snowy hills

  2. characterized by snow

    snowy weather

  3. resembling snow in whiteness, purity, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsnowily, adverb
  • ˈsnowiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • snowi·ly adverb
  • snowi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snowy1

before 1000; Middle English snawy, Old English snāwig. See snow, -y 1
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Example Sentences

You’ll travel across the snowy tundra toward the north face of 20,310-foot Denali.

Carolyn and Duane traveled from Baltimore to the snowy Big Ten towns.

On Monday, even if the full snowy impact of Sunday could not be repeated, signs of winter — and its icy slipperiness — seemed obviously in evidence.

If you drive along a forested road after a long snowy winter, you may notice that trees next to the road look a little more brown than the others.

The first video released by police shows an officer running after the girl along a snowy street.

I mean, for all I know Belgians are the Tintin and Snowy of FIFA .

I mean, for all I know Belgians are the Tintin and Snowy of FIFA.

The village sits on flat land near the frozen Koyukuk River, and looks out on snowy hills.

You question every decision—personal, professional, spiritual—that has led you to this snowy wasteland.

Pros: Getting to picture yourself gliding efficiently through town, perhaps en route to a snowy assignation.

There were pillars of the snowy lime a hundred feet in height, glittering in dazzling beauty.

The table cover and napkins must be of snowy damask, the glass clear as crystal, and taste must preside over each detail.

And it flashed back in crimson splendor from the gleaming hull that floated from the hangar and came to rest upon the snowy world.

Corydon was beautiful—ah God, how beautiful she looked, lying there in the snowy bed, with the snowy lace about her neck and arms!

Mists trailed low along the sides of the Dasar-dee-ash Mountains across the lake, and hid their snowy summits from view.

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