wintry

About 0.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   wintry weather

2. adjective Containing sleet or snow.

   It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

3. adjective Aged, white-haired.
4. adjective Chilling, cheerless.

   a wintry remark

Similar words

brumal wintery hiemal icy frozen frosty frigid cold hibernal glacial

Often followed by

day weather night sky wind air winds blast sun morning

Word family

winterier winteriest wintery wintrier wintriest wintriness wintrinesses