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[ win-tree ] / ˈwɪn tri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wintry ON THESAURUS.COM
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 win·ter·y [win-tuh-ree, -tree] /ˈwɪn tə ri, -tri/ . Origin of wintryFirst recorded before 900; Old English wintrig (not recorded in Middle English ); see winter, -y1 SYNONYMS FOR wintry3 cold, bleak, cheerless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR wintry ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM wintrywin·tri·ly, adverbwin·tri·ness, nounun·win·try, adjectiveWords nearby wintryWinthrop, Winthrop, John, win through, wintle, Winton, wintry, Wintu, Wintun, win-win, winy, winze Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wintryDecember 13, cold and wet snow: the first day so wintry that Roland Moore rode out to his stock tank to break ice. The Ballad of Johnny France|Richard Ben Cramer|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sequined dresses were shown with long, thigh-grazing sweaters in dark, wintry colors. Marc Jacobs: Hot & Heavy for Spring 2014 at New York Fashion Week|Isabel Wilkinson|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST The designer closed out the festivities with a bang—and served up dark, wintry clothes for spring amid piles of wreckage. Marc Jacobs: Hot & Heavy for Spring 2014 at New York Fashion Week|Isabel Wilkinson|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST The place looked pretty bleak in the pelting snow and final minutes of wintry gray light. The Whitney's Trippy Outdoor Pop Art|Scott Rothkopf|June 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson A wintry tale about two women and the search for truth. This Week's Hot Reads|The Daily Beast|December 1, 2009|DAILY BEAST At eight o'clock, when the wintry dawn was breaking and the fog lifting, we entered the station. The Amateur Army|Patrick MacGill Euripides contrasts the sun-lit mountain flats of Persia with the wintry land of Media and the citadels of Bactria. The History of Antiquity|Max Duncker Nature awoke from her wintry sleep, and the spring of modern landscape painting broke with its sadness and its smiles. The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4)|Richard Muther She strikes and sticks fast on outlying sands, where the sea is roaring and leaping like a thousand fiends in the wintry blast. Battles with the Sea|R.M. Ballantyne Then with suddenness a wintry red crept into his cheek, a brightness into his eyes.
British Dictionary definitions for wintrywintrywintery (ˈwɪntərɪ, -trɪ) or less commonly winterly
adjective -trier or -triest(esp of weather) of or characteristic of winter lacking cheer or warmth; bleak Derived forms of wintrywintrily, adverbwintriness, winteriness or rare winterliness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wintrydesolate, frozen, freezing, chilly, icy, frigid, bleak, frosty, biting, cutting, dismal, harsh, raw, snappy, brumal, hibernal, hiemal, icebox |