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- Dictionarywintry/ˈwɪntri/
adjective
- 1. characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak: "a wintry landscape" Similar Opposite
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typical of winter’s cold, windy, and snowy weather: You’ll definitely need snow tires on your car for the wintry weather around here. (Definition of wintry from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of WINTRY is of, relating to, or characteristic of winter. How to use wintry in a sentence.
If it makes you think of winter, it's wintry. Use the adjective wintry to describe a cold, gray January day. The adjective wintry is sometimes spelled wintery. Either way, it describes something that happens in the winter time, or that reminds you of winter in some way.
Wintry definition: of or characteristic of winter. See examples of WINTRY used in a sentence.
Definition of wintry adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
2 meanings: 1. (esp of weather) of or characteristic of winter 2. lacking cheer or warmth; bleak.... Click for more definitions.
Suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness. A wintry welcome. American Heritage. Aged, white (-haired etc.) Wiktionary. Chilling, cheerless. Wiktionary. Synonyms: glacial. frozen. frosty. icy. frigid. wintery. stormy. sleety. chilling. cheerless. brutal. raw.
What does the word wintry mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word wintry. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word wintry? About 0.6 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the word wintry pronounced? British English.
wintry meaning, definition, what is wintry: cold or typical of winter: Learn more.
adj. win·tri·er, win·tri·est also win·ter·i·er or win·ter·i·est. 1. Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold. 2. Suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness: a wintry welcome. win′tri·ly adv. win′tri·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
