SNOWY (snowier, snowiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: snowier    , snowiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does snowy mean? 

• SNOWY (adjective)
  The adjective SNOWY has 3 senses:

1. marked by the presence of snow

2. covered with snow

3. of the white color of snow

  Familiarity information: SNOWY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOWY (adjective)

Comparative: snowier   
Superlative: snowiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by the presence of snow

Synonyms:

snowy; white

Context example:

the white hills of a northern winter

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 2

Meaning:

Covered with snow

Synonyms:

snow-clad; snow-covered; snowy

Context example:

a long snowy winter

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:

Of the white color of snow

Synonyms:

snow-white; snowy

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

 Context examples 

"A lovely evening, but late for you to be out alone," he said, as he crushed the snowy heads of the closed flowers with his foot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And when the snowy afternoon came, Jo resolved to try what could be done.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was still in this state of expectation, and had been, for nearly a week; when I left the Doctor's one snowy night, to walk home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I’d love you to spend a night or two in the country in a snowy wonderland—make it happen!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Instead, it was related to how much water was released from ice grains in the comet's coma compared to directly from the snowy surface.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)

Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked:—And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The new device from UCLA can be integrated into solar panels to provide an alternative power source during snowy days when not enough sunlight makes it to the solar array.

(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, “the palaces of nature,” were not changed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Over the Tarn and the Garonne, through the vast quagmires of Armagnac, past the swift-flowing Losse, and so down the long valley of the Adour, there was many a long league to be crossed ere they could join themselves to that dark war-cloud which was drifting slowly southwards to the line of the snowy peaks, beyond which the banner of England had never yet been seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Are you composed enough,” said I, “to speak on the subject which so interested you—I hope Heaven may remember it!—that snowy night?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)