Word Study
snowy
CIDE DICTIONARY
snowy, a.
- White like snow. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Abounding with snow; covered with snow. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. [1913 Webster]"There did he lose his snowy innocence." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snowy, adj. (snowier, snowiest)
1 of or like snow.
2 (of the weather etc.) with much snow.
1 of or like snow.
2 (of the weather etc.) with much snow.
Idiom
snowy owl a large white owl, Nyctea scandiaca, native to the Arctic.
Derivative
snowily adv. snowiness n.
THESAURUS
snowy
argent, argentine, blotless, canescent, chalky, chaste, clean, cleanly, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, immaculate, innocent, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, nival, niveous, platinum, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, sexually innocent, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-bearded, snow-blanketed, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-crested, snow-drifted, snow-driven, snow-encircled, snow-feathered, snow-hung, snow-laden, snow-lined, snow-loaded, snow-mantled, snow-sprinkled, snow-still, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snow-white, snowlike, spotless, stainless, swan-white, taintless, unblemished, unblotted, uncorrupt, undefiled, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, virtuous, white, white as snowROGET THESAURUS
snowy
Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.For further exploring for "snowy" in Webster Dictionary Online