snowball

1. 1.

   increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate

   Broaderincrease
2. 2.

   throw snowballs at

   Broaderpelt

Other forms of snowball

plural

snowballs·

past tense

snowballed·

present participle

snowballing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about snowball

What does snowball mean?

snowball means "plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snowball?

snowball has 2 syllables: snow-ball. The stress falls on "snow". In IPA it is /ˈsnoʊˌbɔl/.

What is another word for snowball?

Close synonyms include sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is snowball a common word?

snowball is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with snowball?

24 words rhyme with snowball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.