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snowless

snowless

1 3.0
With no snow on the ground
  • adjective
  • /ˈsnoʊləs/
  • UK
translation icon : sin nieve
  • Finally, the boys were free to roam about the park for several hours, sometimes to climb up the now snowless ski jump, which had been built on the hill the previous year.
  • snowless winter
  • snowless December

Examples

  • But we would argue that since Whoville is also a snowless speck in...?

    Blog text (13)
  • During the unusually warm winter, many families enjoyed the snowless parks.

  • Be there or be snowless this winter.

    Blog text (1)
  • While the temperature in November is usually below freezing, the days can be sunny and relatively snowless.

    Academic text (1994)
  • "1934 has opened true to the modern tradition of open, snowless winters.

    Blog text (14)
  • Recently, I returned from a much-needed vacation in Ireland to a frozen and leafless, yet still snowless, and very dusty northern town.

    Blog text (34)
  • The day's-end smell of bodies came in from the frequently opened doorway, borne on cold, snowless air, which Brian savored.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • In May, a freshman named Deborah Dailey heaved a chair through a plate-glass window on the fifth floor of the Gray Building, then followed the chair down to the snowless parking lot, shattering both ankles and fracturing her skull.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The ground was snowless, making it easy to walk without slipping.

  • The landscape looked different without its usual blanket of snowless terrain in spring.

Antonyms

38 1.0

Covered with snow on the ground and on trees

How Snowy

snow-covered
12 2.6
snowy
38 1.0
snowless
  • UK
1 3.0

Surface Forms

snowless positive

Morphology

snowless = snow (transparent) = snow + less

Meaning is directly derived from the noun 'snow' with the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so learners can infer 'without snow'.

Etymology

The word snowless is easy: it joins snow and the ending -less, which means 'without', the same as in hopeless. So, snowless simply means 'without snow'.