wintrier

Adjective

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
   • wintry weather

   Synonyms:

   brumal, hibernal, hiemal

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.

   Synonyms:

   sleety, snowy

3. Aged, white-haired.

   Synonyms:

   grisly, hoary, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebbed, cobwebby, decrepit

4. Chilling, cheerless.
   • a wintry remark

   Synonyms:

   bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate