wintry
Syllables: win·try/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/US/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/
wintry adjective: suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
Adjective
wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)
- 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.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 19
- Containing sleet or snow.
- It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
- Aged, white-haired.
- 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.1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Bounder's Folly
- Synonyms:
- bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate
wintry meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi
wintry in Urdu
- برفانی, سرد, زمستانی
wintry in Malayalam
- മഞ്ഞുകാലത്തുളള, അതിശൈത്യമുളള, അത്യന്തം തണുപ്പുള്ള
wintry in Kannada
- ಚಳಿ, ಮಬ್ಬಾದ, ಹೊಂಪಳಿದ
wintry in Punjabi
- wintry
- ਸਿਆਲ਼ੀ siāḷī
More languagesFewer languages
- wintry in Arabic
- شَتَوِيّ šatawiyy
- wintry in Persian
- زمستانی
Examples of wintry in a sentence
- Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
- The UK could face a spell of wintry weather in March, with lower-than-average temperatures and even the chance of snow, the Met Office has warned.2023 February 28, James Robinson, “UK weather: Met Office says snow could be on the way as cold air over Greenland risks bringing wintry...
Synonyms of wintry
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- antediluvian
- cobwebbed
- cobwebby
- decrepit
- eldern
- gray
- moss-grown
- old
- old as the hills
- old as the Pyramids
- older than dirt
- older than the hills
- older than the Pyramids
- venerable
- elder
- elderly
- geriatric
- gerontologic
- gerontological
- long in the tooth
- matured
- of a certain age
- old as Methuselah
- on in years
- over the hill
- senior
- superannuated
- ivy-covered
- preserved
- bleak
Forms of wintry
| comparative | wintrier |
|---|---|
| superlative | wintriest |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | wintery |
Origin of wintry
From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).
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Questions about wintry
- What does wintry mean?
- Wintry means suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
- What is wintry in Urdu?
- Wintry in Urdu is برفانی, سرد, زمستانی. See Wintry meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use wintry in a sentence?
- Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.
- What part of speech is wintry?
- Wintry is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce wintry?
- Wintry is pronounced /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/ (UK).
Words near wintry in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wintry (page history and authors); wintry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wintry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wintry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਿਆਲ਼ੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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