wintry
adj.
resembling winter (i.e. cold, rainy, snowy, stormy, etc.); gloomy, cheerless
Winter
wintry
Adjective
1. characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"
(synonym) wintery
(antonym) vernal
(similar) brumal, hibernal, hiemal
2. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
(synonym) frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy
(similar) cold
Wintry
(a.)
Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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wintry
Synonyms and related words:
Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, numbing, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.