wintry

Adjective

• Characteristic of or resembling winter; cold and desolate.
• characteristic of or occurring in winter
  • "suffered severe wintry weather"
  • "brown wintry grasses"

Adjective Satellite

• devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
  • "wintry smile"

Adj

• Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
• Containing sleet or snow.
• Aged, white-haired.
• Chilling, cheerless.

Examples

• a wintry remark
• It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
• The WINTRY silence of the Scrabble room was broken only by the clack of tiles.
• wintry weather

Synonyms

frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintery, age-old, aged, ancient, antediluvian, auld, bleak, brumal, cheerless, cobwebbed, cobwebby, comfortless, dark, decrepit, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, eld, elder, elderly, eldern, forlorn, gayless, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grim, grisly, hibernal, hiemal, hoary, ivy-covered, joyless, lack-laughter, long in the tooth, lugubrious, matured, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moss-covered, moss-grown, no joke, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, old as the Pyramids, old as the hills, olden, older than dirt, older than the Pyramids, older than the hills, on in years, over the hill, preserved, saturnine, senior, sleety, snowy, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, superannuated, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, venerable, wintry, woeful

Antonyms

autumnal, summery, vernal

Related Words

WINTRILY