wintry

wintry

English

Alternative forms

• wintery

Etymology

From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
• (General American) enPR: wĭnʹt(ə-)rē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/, [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]
• Rhymes: -ɪntɹi, -ɪntəɹi
• Hyphenation: win‧try

Adjective

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   wintry weather

2. Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.

   It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

3. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.
   • 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly

     He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

   a wintry remark

Synonyms

• (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

Derived terms

Derived terms

• unwintry
• wintrily
• wintriness

• wintry mix
• wintry shower

Translations

suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy

Armenian: ձմեռային (hy) (jmeṙayin) Belarusian: зімо́вы m (zimóvy), зі́мні m (zímni) Cornish: gwavek Czech: mrazivý (cs), ledový (cs) Esperanto: vintra Finnish: talvinen (fi) French: hivernal (fr), hibernal (fr) Galician: invernal m or f German: winterlich (de) Italian: invernale (it) Lithuanian: žiemiškas m, žiemiška f Manx: geuragh

Maori: pūhuka Norwegian: vinterlig Polish: zimowy (pl) Portuguese: hibernal (pt), invernal (pt), invernoso (pt) Russian: холо́дный (ru) (xolódnyj), зи́мний (ru) (zímnij) Scottish Gaelic: geamhradail, geamhrachail Spanish: invernal (es) Swahili: -a baridi sana Swedish: vintrig (sv) Ukrainian: зимо́вий (uk) m (zymóvyj) Venetian: invernal Welsh: gaeafol (cy)

aged, white(-haired etc.)

Finnish: harmaahapsinen

Russian: седо́й (ru) (sedój)

chilling, cheerless

Russian: уны́лый (ru) (unýlyj), неприветливый (ru) (neprivetlivyj)

Welsh: oer (cy), oeraidd (cy)

References

• wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967