Definition of WINTRY

wintry

Meanings

Adjective

  • 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.

Origin / Etymology

From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).

Synonyms

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, frigid, frosty, frozen, gayless, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, glacial, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grim, grisly, hibernal, hiemal, hoary, icy, 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 hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, on in years, over the hill, preserved, saturnine, senior, sleety, snowy, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, superannuated, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, venerable, wintery, wintry, woeful

Antonyms

autumnal, summery, vernal

Scrabble Score: 12

wintry is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
wintry is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wintry is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

wintry is a valid Words With Friends word