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
Scrabble Score: 12
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