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wintry
[ win-tree ]
adjective
- of or characteristic of winter: wintry skies.
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.
wintry
/ ˈwɪntərɪ; -trɪ; ˈwɪntrɪ /
adjective
- (esp of weather) of or characteristic of winter
- lacking cheer or warmth; bleak
Derived Forms
- ˈwintrily, adverb
- ˈwintriness, noun
Other Words From
- wintri·ly adverb
- wintri·ness noun
- un·wintry adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Begins: As soon as enough snow has fallen to turn even the most mundane things into lovely wintry sculpture.
December 13, cold and wet snow: the first day so wintry that Roland Moore rode out to his stock tank to break ice.
Sequined dresses were shown with long, thigh-grazing sweaters in dark, wintry colors.
The designer closed out the festivities with a bang—and served up dark, wintry clothes for spring amid piles of wreckage.
The place looked pretty bleak in the pelting snow and final minutes of wintry gray light.
She smiled back at him, a pale, timid smile, like a gleam of sunshine from a wintry sky.
Each day saw the wintry winds grow colder, and soon the ice upon Lake Luna was thick enough to bear.
Later had come lean and bitter years until finally his reputation dwindled like a gutted candle in a wintry room at midnight.
And then Lamb began to taste something like panic even as the first neon signs began to smear the wintry shadows.
Thick fog banks came sweeping past at intervals; a cold north-easterly gale conveyed a wintry feeling to the air.
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