snowy

adjective

Definition of snowynext
1
as in rainy

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2
as in snow-white

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Recent Examples of snowy Below, during a spoiler conversation with THR, Abrams also discusses the 150-pound blood bag that nearly crushed him during his sprint through snowy Raccoon City. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026 Analyzing two decades of measurements from NASA satellites, the researchers discovered that after a snowy winter in the Sierra Nevada, the melting snow that runs off the mountains substantially raises water levels underground. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 Bryan, without chains on his tires, drives up a treacherous farm-country road in the snowy night, which lends the movie a fairy-tale atmosphere. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026 With his careful direction, the silkworms slowly adopted Liang’s foreign objects as their homes, covering them with snowy white threads, creating their own sculptures. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for snowy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowy
  1. rainy
  2. snow-white
  3. gray
  4. neutral
  5. pallid
  6. pale
  7. faint
Adjective
  • Thursday, as the Kansas City metro headed into a rainy weekend, the groups worked together to lay tarps on homes that had still not been covered despite their roof damage and black mold that had begun to grow.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026
  • According to the organization, monitoring so far has revealed a mixed picture, showing less pollution leaving the site in dry months, but water with high nutrient loads escaping into local waterways during rainy periods.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of rainy
Adjective
  • Flag Flagging 10 to 12 inches of broad, snow-white tail serves a dual purpose.
    — Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
  • My hero tenderly wrapped his snow-white daughter in a cravat; my heroine woke with a stab of fear, wondering where her stomach had gone.
    — Eloisa James, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
Definition of snow-white
Adjective
  • According to a preliminary investigation, the crash happened as a gray Toyota Camry sped south on Prospect.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In Proserpina, eleven vertical yellow wooden rods, enrobed in layers of gray and maroon wire netting, increase in length around a wire-mesh spiral that reaches three feet at its tallest point.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of gray
Adjective
  • The lineup is generally made up of Ikea’s signature neutral tones like pine, black, and white, and highlighted with pops of Xbox green.
    — Bee Wertheimer, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Piper Sandler upgrades Alerus Financial to overweight from neutral Piper says the regional bank has EPS upside.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of neutral
Adjective
  • The pallid grayness of Mike Eley’s cinematography is probably supposed to mimic the finality of HIV/AIDS taking hold, but there’s no passion aesthetically to counterbalance what becomes absolute misery onscreen to watch.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Young people in particular have soured on the technology over the last year, a development that may at least partially be explained by a pallid entry-level job market.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of pallid
Adjective
  • Rocha developed Parker’s dress from an existing show piece, reworking its hand-laced, unraveling ribbons in a pale ballet pink intended as a nod to pointe shoes.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Wide, pale pink, satin ribbons were threaded loosely throughout the dress, culminating in bows at the shoulders.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of pale
Adjective
  • The concept uses single-photon lidar to detect faint laser reflections from an aircraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • This places the light on a more sensitive part of your retina and can make faint objects easier to see.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of faint

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“Snowy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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