Wintry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wintry \Win"try\, a. [AS. wintrig.]
     Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to
     winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
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           Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile,


           Our wintry course do thou beguile.       --Keble.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wintry
       adj 1: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe
              wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses" [syn: {wintery}]
              [ant: {vernal}, {summery}, {autumnal}]
       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" [syn: {frigid},
           {frosty}, {frozen}, {glacial}, {icy}]
       [also: {wintriest}, {wintrier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "wintry":
     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