wintry

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Suggestive or characteristic of winter

   Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   • wintry weather
   • A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.
2. 2

   Containing sleet or snow.

   • It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
3. 3

   Aged, white-haired.

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   1. 4

      Chilling, cheerless.

      • a wintry remark
      • He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

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