wintry
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation 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
- French: hivernal, hibernal
- German: winterlich
- Italian: invernale
- Portuguese: hibernal, invernal, invernoso
- Russian: холо́дный
- Spanish: invernal
- Russian: седо́й
- Russian: уны́лый
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