wintry

UK /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/ US /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

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.

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.

3

Aged, white-haired.

4

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.

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