WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
2.68
History
Add

wintry adjective [ ˈwɪnt(ə)ri ]

• characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak.
• "a wintry landscape"
Similar: bleak, cold, chilly, frosty, freezing, icy, snowy, icy-cold, arctic, glacial, frigid, bitter, biting, piercing, sharp, raw, nippy, parky, Baltic, chill, hyperborean, hibernal, hiemal, brumal, unfriendly, cool, distant, remote,
Opposite: summery, balmy, hot, friendly, warm,
Origin: Old English wintrig (see winter, -y1).


2025 WordDisk