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wintry Definition

win·try (wintrē)

adjective -·trier, -·tri·est

of or like winter; cold, bleak, etc. a wintry day, a wintry stare

wintry Related Forms

win·trily (-trə lē) adverb win·tri·ness (-trē nis) noun

wintry Synonyms

wintry

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wintry Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • decidedly: February was decidedly wintry, particularly in northern Britain which experienced severe blizzard conditions.
  • definitely: There has been very little drifting and not much in the way of riming on the rocks tho they were definitely wintry looking.

Preposition: with

hail: During the morning the showers, moderate at times, turned wintry with small hail at times.

Modifies a noun

  • shower: More cold weather to come with plenty of wintry showers on the tops.
  • weather: March With the wintry weather over, rapid progress is now being made around the ground.
  • sun: The flowers gone, the crisp and wintry sun Lit instead the webs that spiders weave.
  • landscape: The warm glows of the pine studio contrast with the wintry seashore landscape barely visible through his one small window.
  • condition: A number of vehicles fell foul of Friday's wintry weather road conditions.

Used with adjective complement

  • turn: Showers turning wintry during the morning with some small hail.
  • get: The weather is slowly getting more wintry outside and the sea is rough most of the time.

Preposition: in

nature: They produce showers that are wintry in nature and which sometimes become aligned into troughs.

Browse dictionary entries near wintry

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  5. winterly
  6. winterkill
  7. winterize
  8. wintergreen
  9. winterfeed
  10. winterbourne
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  2. winze
  3. wipe
  4. wipe out
  5. wiped-out
  6. wipeout
  7. wiper
  8. Wiping
  9. wire
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