niveous
/ˈnɪvɪəs
/adjective literary
Snowy or resembling snow: all seemed to shimmer and slip away into a niveous haze, as if a fog was rising from some realm beneath the floor...
- His interpretation of the crystalline clearness and the niveous winter air is individual and exceptional. His most successful work thus far is along.
- And the niveous winter gleam, although polished, could never radiate the warmth of your smile.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin niveus (from nix, niv- 'snow') + -ous.
Rhymes
- sweatshirt
- sweatshop
- sweat sock
- sweatsuit
- sweat the small stuff
- sweaty
- Swed
- swede
- Sweden
- Swedenborg, Emanuel
- Swedenborgian
- Swede saw
- swedge
- Swedish
- Swedish massage
- Sweeney
- sweep
- sweepback
- sweeper
- sweeping
- sweepingly
- sweepingness
- sweep second hand
- sweep someone off their feet
- sweep something under the carpet