wintry

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: win=try

CIDE DICTIONARY

wintry, a. [AS. wintrig.].

 Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.  [1913 Webster]
"Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile,
Our wintry course do thou beguile."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wintry, adj. (also wintery) (; wintrier, wintriest)
1 characteristic of winter (wintry weather; a wintry sun; a wintry landscape).
2 (of a smile, greeting, etc.) lacking warmth or enthusiasm.

Derivative

wintrily adv. wintriness n.

Etymology

OE wintrig, or f. WINTER

THESAURUS

wintry

Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, numbing, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery

ROGET THESAURUS

wintry

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.