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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The winter of 2025 to 2026 ranked among Switzerland's ten least snowy winters since records began, leaving glaciers with less snow to protect them from warmer temperatures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Another commented: "This is such a sweet series. It's like a warm cosy blanket on a snowy winter day."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
WSJ: There’s a view that weather is a player on the field—that a snowy game in December in Buffalo is part of what football is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
But on snowy Friday evening in late 2024, heavy traffic pushed him underground to visit his mother.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
Key findings from the study include that deer density was significantly lower in areas with colder, snowier winters.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Not every species will be able to adapt or move to snowier climates, “so we’ll see the extinction of some animals,” says Bentley.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 17, 2024
From Syracuse they went north again, into a colder, snowier city—Rochester.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
In terms of falling snow, the snowiest Easter on record in the UK was in 1983 when Easter fell between 1-4 April.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
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
Mammoth Mountain has experienced its snowiest November since 2010, with a huge storm dumping nearly 50 inches on the Eastern Sierra resort earlier this week, the National Weather Service said Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 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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