wintry
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter + -y.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
- (General American) enPR: wĭnʹt(ə-)rē, IPA(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/, [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]
- Rhymes: -ɪntɹi, -ɪntəɹi
- Hyphenation: win‧try
Adjective
wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)
- Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
- wintry weather
- Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.
- It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
- Aged, white-haired.
- Chilling, cheerless.
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly
- He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
- a wintry remark
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
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References
- wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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