wintry

[ win-tree ]
/ ˈwɪn tri /
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adjective, win·tri·er, win·tri·est.

of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
resembling winter weather; having snow, frost, cold, storms, etc.: We had wintry weather well into May last year.
suggestive of winter, as in lack of warmth or cheer: a wintry manner.
Also wintery.

Origin of wintry

before 900; Old English wintrig (not recorded in ME); see winter, -y1

OTHER WORDS FROM wintry

win·tri·ly, adverb win·tri·ness, noun un·win·try, adjective

Words nearby wintry

wintery, winthrop, winthrop, john, wintle, winton, wintry, wintu, wintun, winy, winze, wip

Words related to wintriness

snow, chill, coolness, iciness, coldness, frigidity, drop, ice, freeze, rime, blight, dip, hoarfrost, frost, refrigeration, rawness, ague, draft, shivering, inclemency

Example sentences from the Web for wintriness

  • They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life.

    The Amazing Marriage, Complete |George Meredith

  • The hills that fringed the city were ragged in their wintriness, and ash-dark with the thickening dusk.

    The Tempering |Charles Neville Buck

British Dictionary definitions for wintriness

wintry

wintery (ˈwɪntərɪ, -trɪ) or less commonly winterly

/ (ˈwɪntrɪ) /

adjective -trier or -triest

(esp of weather) of or characteristic of winter
lacking cheer or warmth; bleak

Derived forms of wintry

wintrily, adverb wintriness, winteriness or rare winterliness, noun