wintery
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1.8
- adjective
- /ˈwɪntəri/
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invernal
- Being sleeveless, you’d think this is just for warmer weather, but add a chunky sweater, a belt, tights, and boots, and you have a wintery outfit.
And it still has that wintery feel to it because it's a scarf.
- And it still has that wintery feel to it because it's a scarf.
- And then I've got really wintery stuff like my skiing stuff, gloves, hats, scarves, things like that.
- I think white is very wintery and cream is just a lot more autumnal and it's like a little bit warmer.
- You kind of have like that wintery fresh lungs kind of feeling when you smell this.
- Both you just run under the water and they create bubbles, but they are great a little wintery butter bear love them.
- It is a kind of dark brown nude and it just looks like this is such a pretty autumnal wintery colour.
- Oh my gosh look how pretty super blue wintery glowy and I love the packaging is really cool and then this is the tiger collection.
Examples
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On a cold, wintery day, the children built a snowman in the park.
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It's such a pretty like wintery pink color.
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You kind of have like that wintery fresh lungs kind of feeling when you smell this.
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And it still has that wintery feel to it because it's a scarf.
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It's a really classic, nice wintery camel, really beautiful leather.
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And then for those more wintery, blustery days, you can put on some boots.
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- Well, Barbara, it all started on a bleak, wintery morning in Kitty Hawk.
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With the holidays on the way, I am really loving wintery warmers like Bluster the Snowman.
Blog text (9) -
It had rained earlier in the day, but now a pale, chilly, wintery sort of sun hung in the blue sky.
Fiction book (1993) -
She wore a wintery coat to keep warm in the chilly weather.
Synonyms
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3.5
Cold and bleak with snow or strong wind
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1.0
Cold, often with a thin layer of ice on the ground
Having the cold, snowy feeling of winter
Relating to winter and its cold months
Relating to winter, usually cold and snowy
How Wintry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wintery is made from winter plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'like', as in rainy or sunny. So wintery means 'like winter' or 'full of cold weather and snow'.