VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / nuclear winter

Thesaurus: nuclear winter

a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organ…

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

nucleardefinitionatmospheredefinitionblockdefinitioncolddefinitioncoverdefinitiondarknessdefinitiondustdefinitionearthdefinitionextremedefinitionfollowdefinitionfull-scaledefinitionlayerdefinitionlivingdefinitionlongdefinitionorganismsdefinitionperioddefinitionperishdefinitionpredictdefinitionraysdefinitionscientistsdefinitionsmokedefinitionsundefinitionwardefinitionnuclear reactorfamilyNuclear Regulatory Commissionfamilynuclear resonancefamilynuclear RNAfamilynuclear rocketfamily

Definitions

  1. n. a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish