snowy
Americanadjective
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covered with or abounding in snow
snowy hills
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characterized by snow
snowy weather
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resembling snow in whiteness, purity, etc
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Etymology
Origin of snowy
before 1000; Middle English snawy, Old English snāwig. See snow, -y 1
Explanation
Snowy things are covered with snow or resemble snow—like snowy rooftops in the winter or your grandpa's snowy beard that makes him look like Santa Claus. You can use snowy to describe the hills and fields in Vermont during your January visit, and also when you talk about the weather: "Next week looks snowy, but it's going to warm up after that." Things that are the brilliant white color of fresh snow are also snowy, like a swan's snowy feathers or your neighbor's snowy wall-to-wall carpet that you're not allowed to walk on.
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El Niño years do bring an enhanced chance of cold and snowy weather in late winter across north-west Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Video of the confrontation appears to show Nelson idling in a snowy strip mall parking lot in his gray Dodge Ram when another driver in an even larger pickup pulls in beside him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
But on snowy Friday evening in late 2024, heavy traffic pushed him underground to visit his mother.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Already though, there’s been positive signs for the island foxes and the western snowy plover, a threatened shorebird that has a year-round population on Santa Rosa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Below them the snowy slope disappeared in the darkness.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
If we take the average of number of days where snow falls in a month, March is actually snowier than December.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
In snowier news, Mamdani faces a flurry of criticism from police over a snowball fight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
This has led to a persistent pattern of unusually wet, snowier weather in Northern California and unusually dry weather over Southern California and much of the Southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Key findings from the study include that deer density was significantly lower in areas with colder, snowier winters.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
It was colder and darker and snowier than ever.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
At a hot-springs resort in the snowiest mountains of Japan, a wealthy and bored man named Shimamura becomes involved with Komako, a geisha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
A perk of living in Syracuse — despite its reputation for hard winters and as one of the snowiest places in America — is its relative stability when it comes to other weather elements.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
This was recorded back in March 1947 in Denbighshire, North Wales, during the snowiest UK winter of the 20th century.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
“Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab asked on the social platform X.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
Roses ranging from the deepest crimson to the snowiest white ran above the windows.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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