snowier; snowiest
1
a
: composed of snow or melted snow
b
: marked by or covered with snow
2
a
: whitened by snow
b
Examples of snowy in a Sentence
This is the snowiest winter in years.
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Mowing Cool-Season Grass If your winters are snowy, your grass is likely a cool-season variety, such as Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, or perennial ryegrass.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Ec3 has already warmed sidewalks in snowy Sapporo, Japan, thanks to its thermal conductivity.
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Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt.
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The following morning, Jackson County Search and Rescue, assisted by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, launched a full search effort in snowy, cold and windy conditions.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Ec3 has already warmed sidewalks in snowy Sapporo, Japan, thanks to its thermal conductivity.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt.
—Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The following morning, Jackson County Search and Rescue, assisted by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, launched a full search effort in snowy, cold and windy conditions.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Snowy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowy. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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snowy
adjective
snowier; snowiest
1
: marked by or covered with snow
a snowy day
snowy mountaintops
2
a
: whitened by or as if by snow
an orchard snowy with apple blossoms
b
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