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niveous

/ˈnɪviəs/
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Use the adjective niveous for anything that's the bright white color of fresh snow, like the niveous landscape outside your window on a frosty morning in January.

This literary way to say "snowy white" may come in handy if you want to impress your English teacher or write a flowery letter to someone. You could describe your grandmother's niveous halo of hair or a niveous field of fluffy dandelion seed heads. The word literally means "resembling snow," from the Latin niveus, "snowy," and its root nix, "snow."

Definitions of niveous
  1. adjective
    of the white color of snow
    synonyms: snow-white, snowy
    achromatic, neutral
    having no hue
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