adj
Meaning 1
Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- wintry weather
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brumal, hibernal, hiemal
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wintry
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
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General-American: ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē
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General-American: /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/
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General-American: [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]
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rhymes with -ɪntɹi
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adj
Meaning 2
Containing sleet or snow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sleety, snowy
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Aged, white-haired.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grisly, hoary, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebbed, cobwebby, decrepit, eld, eldern, gamol, gray, moss-grown, old, old as the hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, venerable, wintry, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, senior, superannuated, ivy-covered, preserved
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Chilling, cheerless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a wintry remark
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
characteristic of or occurring in winter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- suffered severe wintry weather
- brown wintry grasses
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wintery
Antonyms: vernal, summery, autumnal
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a frigid greeting
- got a frosty reception
- a frozen look on their faces
- a glacial handshake
- icy stare
- wintry smile
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شَتَوِيّ (šatawiyy) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Armenian: ձմեռային (jmeṙayin) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Asturian: ivernosu — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Asturian: ivernizu — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Belarusian: зімо́вы (zimóvy) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Belarusian: зі́мні (zímni) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Bulgarian: мразовит (mrazovit) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Cornish: gwavek — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Czech: mrazivý — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Czech: ledový — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Esperanto: vintra — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Finnish: talvinen — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- French: hivernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- French: hibernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Galician: invernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Galician: invernizo — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Georgian: ზამთრული (zamtruli) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Georgian: ზამთრის (zamtris) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Georgian: საზამთრო (sazamtro) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Georgian: სუსხიანი (susxiani) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Georgian: ცივი (civi) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- German: winterlich — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Greek: χειμωνιάτικος (cheimoniátikos) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Ancient Greek: χειμέριος (kheimérios) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Hungarian: télies — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Italian: invernale — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Latin: hiemālis — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Latin: hibernalis — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Lithuanian: žiemiškas — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Manx: geuragh — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Māori: pūhuka — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Norwegian: vinterlig — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Persian: زمستانی — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Polish: zimowy — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Portuguese: hibernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Portuguese: invernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Portuguese: invernoso — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Romanian: iernatic — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Russian: холо́дный (xolódnyj) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Russian: зи́мний (zímnij) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Scottish Gaelic: geamhradail — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Scottish Gaelic: geamhrachail — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Spanish: invernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Swahili: -a baridi sana — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Swedish: vintrig — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Ukrainian: зимо́вий (zymóvyj) — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Venetan: invernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Welsh: gaeafol — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
- Finnish: harmaahapsinen — aged, white(-haired etc.)
- Russian: седо́й (sedój) — aged, white(-haired etc.)
- Bulgarian: безрадостен (bezradosten) — chilling, cheerless
- Bulgarian: унил (unil) — chilling, cheerless
- Bulgarian: умърлушен (umǎrlušen) — chilling, cheerless
- Hungarian: fagyos — chilling, cheerless
- Russian: уны́лый (unýlyj) — chilling, cheerless
- Russian: неприветливый (neprivetlivyj) — chilling, cheerless
- Welsh: oer — chilling, cheerless
- Welsh: oeraidd — chilling, cheerless