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Webster 1913 Edition

Wintry

Win′try

,

Adj.

[AS.

wintrig

.]

Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile,
Our

wintry

course do thou beguile.

Keble.

Definition 2024

wintry

wintry

English

Alternative forms

wintery

Adjective

wintry ‎(comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
wintry weather
Aged, white-haired.
Chilling, cheerless.
a wintry remark

Synonyms

(suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

Derived terms

Derived terms

Translations

suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy

Armenian: ձմեռային (hy) ‎(jmeṙayin)
Belarusian: зімо́вы m ‎(zimóvy), зі́мні m ‎(zímni)
Cornish: gwavek
Czech: mrazivý, ledový (cs)
Esperanto: vintra
Finnish: talvinen (fi)
French: hivernal (fr), hibernal (fr)
German: winterlich (de)
Italian: invernale (it)
Lithuanian: žiemiškas m, žiemiška f
Manx: geuragh
Maori: pūhuka

Norwegian: vinterlig
Polish: zimowy (pl)
Portuguese: hibernal (pt), invernal (pt), invernoso (pt)
Russian: холо́дный (ru) ‎(xolódnyj), зи́мний (ru) ‎(zímnij)
Scottish Gaelic: geamhradail, geamhrachail
Spanish: invernal (es)
Swahili: -a baridi sana
Swedish: vintrig (sv)
Ukrainian: зимо́вий (uk) m ‎(zymóvyj)
Venetian: invernal
Welsh: gaeafol (cy)

aged, white(-haired etc.)

Finnish: harmaahapsinen

Russian: седо́й (ru) ‎(sedój)

chilling, cheerless

Russian: уны́лый (ru) ‎(unýlyj), неприветливый (ru) ‎(neprivetlivyj)

Welsh: oer (cy), oeraidd (cy)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967