wintry
/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/ adjective C2- Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. · wintry weather
- Containing sleet or snow. · It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
- Aged, white-haired.
- Chilling, cheerless. · a wintry remark
Comparative wintrier · Superlative wintriest
From the library
LATE lies the wintry sun a-bed,
In wintry dungeons, far from day;
And that night, when Anne had gone to prayer meeting with Diana, Marilla sat alone in the wintry twilight and indulged in the weakness of a cry.
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