winterly
English
Etymology
winter + -ly
Adjective
winterly (comparative more winterly, superlative most winterly)
- Of or relating to winter.
- Happening in winter.
- Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem
- One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way.
- Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem
- Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
Synonyms
- (of or relating to winter): winter
- (happening in winter): winter
- (characteristic of winter): winterish, wintery/wintry, hiemal
Derived terms
- winterliness