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SNOWY
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Irregular inflected forms: snowier , snowiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the white color of snow
Synonyms:
snow-white; snowy
Classified under:
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with snow
Example:
a long snowy winter
Synonyms:
snow-clad; snow-covered; snowy
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Derivation:
snow (a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by the presence of snow
Example:
the white hills of a northern winter
Synonyms:
snowy; white
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Derivation:
snow (a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground)
Context examples:
"Annie Moffat has blue and pink bows on her nightcaps. Would you put some on mine?" she asked, as Beth brought up a pile of snowy muslins, fresh from Hannah's hands.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I and my pupil dined as usual in Mrs. Fairfax's parlour; the afternoon was wild and snowy, and we passed it in the schoolroom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It should be cozy, perhaps with wood paneling, snowy white tablecloths, and fresh flowers.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And when I heard what had happened before that snowy night, from some belonging to our town, cried Martha, the bitterest thought in all my mind was, that the people would remember she once kept company with me, and would say I had corrupted her!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a snowy day, I recollect, and you could not go out of doors.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
