wintry as an adjective: - 1
- 2
wintry
adjective
1 wintry
Characteristic of or occurring in winter:
— Suffered severe wintry weather.
— Brown wintry grasses.
synonym: wintery.
Dutch: winters
Polish: zimowy
2 wintry
Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain:
— Wintry smile.
synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy.
Roget 383:
cold,
cool;
chill,
chilly;
icy;
gelid,
frigid,
algid†;
fresh,
keen,
bleak,
raw,
inclement,
bitter,
biting,
niveous†,
cutting,
nipping,
piercing,
pinching;
clay-cold;
starved
etc.
(made cold)
385;
chilled to the bone,
shivering
etc.
v.;
aguish,
transi de froid [Fr.];
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.
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Polish: lodowaty
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