rimy

/'raimi/

Thân thiện

The windowpane was rimy with delicate frost patterns.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Covered with frost or rime: Describes something that has a coating of white frost, especially delicate ice crystals formed from freezing fog or water vapor.

Usage

• Used primarily as a descriptive term in literary or meteorological contexts to depict a scene, object, or atmosphere that is frost-covered.
• Typically modifies nouns like "morning," "air," "window," "branches," or "fields."

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The trees were rimy after the cold night.
  • She looked out at the rimy landscape, glittering in the weak winter sun.
  • His breath condensed on the rimy windowpane.

Advanced Usage

• Poetic/Literary Descriptions: "Rimy" is often favored in poetry and descriptive prose to evoke a specific, crisp, cold visual imagery, more so than the more common "frosty."
  • The rimy hedgerows stood like silver lace against the dawn.

Variants and Related Words

• Rime (noun): The frost or ice coating itself.
  • A thick rime covered the grass.
• Rimed (adjective): An alternative past participle/adjective form with the same meaning as "rimy."
  • The rimed leaves crunched underfoot.

Synonyms

• Frosty: Covered with frost.
• Hoary: Greyish-white, often with age or frost.
• Icy: Covered with or consisting of ice.

Antonyms

• Thawed: No longer frozen.
• Clear: Free from frost or condensation.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. covered with frost
   • a frosty glass
   • hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost-Wm.Faulkner

Từ đồng nghĩa

• frosty
• rimed