rimy · adj — coated in rime. It carries an Arena rating of 1392, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, rimy ranks #315 of 17,162 for Most Elegant Words, #537 of 17,167 for Most Vivid Words, #3,728 of 17,201 for Funniest Words, #4,353 of 17,180 for Most Ingenious Words.
Why “rimy” is a great word
Covered with or consisting of rime, a white frost. From Old English hrīmig, from hrīm (“frost, hoarfrost”) + -ig (adjective-forming suffix). Unlike “frosty,” which suggests a general coldness or chill, often metaphorical, or “icy,” which implies a hard, clear, and often slippery surface of frozen water, rimy denotes the soft, crystalline deposit of frost. It is the delicate lace on a black branch at dawn, the ghostly bloom on a woolen scarf, the crystalline beard on a frozen fence post—a temporary architecture of frozen breath, a visible exhalation of the earth itself, leaving no trace but the memory of having been adorned.
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- Coated in rime.e.g.“It was a rimy morning, and very damp.” — 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 31:
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