wintry Definition
win·try (win′trē)
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
modif.
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
- ‹ Winthrop
- ‹ wintertime
- ‹ Winterthur
- ‹ Winterson,Jeanette
- ‹ winterly
- ‹ winterkill
- ‹ winterize
- ‹ wintergreen
- ‹ winterfeed
- ‹ winterbourne

