wintry

Examples

• All

• They join us from a cold and wintry New York.

• The children built a snowman under the pale light of the wintry sun.

• And actually it's really wintry outside today.

• It's a wintry mess here--

  Best Man Down (2012)

• Mom, dad, tell me, what brings you to this wintry part of the country?

  Soul Man (1986)

• Not just any night... a very cold, dark, wintry night where it's almost pitch black.

  Sexual Predator (2001)

• Things continue to progress toward a wintry pattern through the end of November into early December.

  Blog text (20)

• Winter, in the end, is surely no great friend to the forests, but even wintry forests have their beauty.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Lloyd moves to the window and looks out at the gray, wintry cityscape.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Mr. Lefcowicz was staring intently out the window at the wintry day, his back to us.

  Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

F

frosty

vswintry

11 1.0

Cold, often with a thin layer of ice on the ground

is broader and applies to general winterlike or cold conditions

B

bleak

vswintry

8 5.0

Cold wet weather that feels unpleasant

is neutral about mood, focusing on seasonality rather than gloom

W

wintery

vswintry

1 1.8

Having cold weather with snow and strong wind

is the more common or standard spelling form

B

brumal

vswintry

• Archaic

9.9

Having the cold, snowy feeling of winter

is the everyday term rather than a formal or literary label

H

hiemal

vswintry

9.9

Relating to winter, usually cold and snowy

is the common descriptive word used in ordinary speech

Antonyms

S

summery

3 2.8

Having warm, bright, and light qualities like sunny days

How Wintry

icy

89 1.0

wintry

12 3.5

frosty

11 1.0

cold

∞ 1.0

chilly

100 1.0

cool

608 1.0

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Etymology