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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