Wintry

Definition: Wintry

Wintry

Adjective

1. Characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses".

2. Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wintry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Wintry \Win"try\, adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression wintrig.]. (references)

Synonyms: Wintry

Cold

Icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out.

Crosswords: Wintry

Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintry dark (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

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Books

• Dreams from a Wintry Night, Poems (reference)

• Faith in a Wintry Season: Conversations and Interviews With Karl Rahner in the Last Years of His Life (reference)

• Farewell, Miss Julie Logan: a wintry tale (reference)

• Now in Wintry Delights (Collected Works of Robert Bridges) (reference)

• On a Wintry Morning (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• All On A Wintry Night: A Judy Collins Christmas (reference)

• One Wintry Night (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A wintry vista along a frozen snow-covered Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.

Getting up on the cars in the early wintry morning outside the door of the castle

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Expressions using "wintry": wintry smile ♦ wintry weather ♦ wintry wind. Additional references.

Ending with "wintry": half-wintry.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly), i ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly), dimri (winter, winterly), dimëror (brumal, hibernal, winter, winterly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عجوز (elderly, gaffer, grey haired, long in the tooth, old, overage), ‏عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, wild, winded, windy), ‏شتوي (hibernal, winter), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, raw, silly, unfriendly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, unresponsive, winterly), хладен (chill, chilly, cold, cool, crisp, impersonal, inapproachable, lukewarm, passionless, tepid, unemotional, unmoved), неприветлив (austere, chilly, cold, forbidding, grim, stern, unaffable, unapproachable, ungracious), зимен (brumal, hibernal, winter). (various references)

Chinese 

寒冬 . (various references)

Czech

zimní (hibernal, winter, winterly), mrazivý (chilly, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, nippy, winterly), ledový (arctic, gelid, glacial, ice cold, iced, icy, stone cold, stony, winterly). (various references)

Danish

vinterdvale (hibernation, overwintering, wintry lethargy). (various references)

Dutch

winterrust (wintry lethargy). (various references)

Finnish

talvinen (winter). (various references)

French

vieux, torrentueux, morne, hivernal (winter), glacial, d'hiver. (various references)

German

winterlich (of the winter, winter, winter-, winterly). (various references)

Greek 

χειμωνιάτικοσ, χειμερινόσ (hibernal). (various references)

Hebrew 

חורפי (hibernal, winter), חרפי. (various references)

Hungarian

zimankós (winterly), télies (hibernal, winterly, wintery). (various references)

Italian

invernale (winter-, winterly), freddo (bleak, chill, chilliness, chilly, cold, cold-hearted, coldness, cool, nonchalant, raw, stiff, winterly), da inverno (winterly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寒々 (desolate), 寒寒 (desolate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さむざむ (desolate). (various references)

Manx

geuragh (winterly). (various references)

Pig Latin

intryway.(various references)

Portuguese

glacial (chill, freezing, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, winterly), gelado (bleak, chill, free-for-all, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, ice-cold, iced, icy, nipping, winterly), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly), de inverno (winterly). (various references)

Romanian

rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery), iernatic (grey headed, hibernal, winter-like, wintery), hibernal (wintery), de iarnã (wintery). (various references)

Russian 

зимний (brumal, hibernal, winterly). (various references)

Scottish

gailleann (storm, tempest, wintry weather). (various references)

Spanish

invernal (winterly). (various references)

Swedish

vinterlik. (various references)

Turkish

soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic), kış gibi, buz gibi (arctic, chill, freezing, frigid, gelid, icily, icy, nippy, sour, very cold). (various references)

Ukrainian

старезний (advanced, age-old, ancient, antiquated, antique, decrepit, prehistoric, prehistorical, senile, winterly), крижаний (arctic, gelid, glacial, ice cold, icy, winterly), морозний (frosty, winterly), зимовий (brumal, hibernal, wintered, winterly), зимний (winterly). (various references)

hiberni, hiemalem, hiemali. (various references)

Misspellings

"Wintry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intray, intri, lintry, vintry, wentry, winary, winterey, wintery, wintre, Witrik, Wynstay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: twiny.

-2 letters: tiny, twin, tyin, winy, wiry, writ.

-3 letters: nit, rin, tin, try, win, wit, wry, wyn, yin.

-4 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: wintery.

+2 letters: trainway, winterly, wintrily.

+3 letters: trainways, twinberry.

+4 letters: skywriting, skywritten, toweringly, unworthily.

+5 letters: countrywide, downrightly, outwearying, playwriting, skywritings, typewriting, typewritten, winterberry, witheringly.