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WINTRY
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Irregular inflected forms: wintrier , wintriest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of or occurring in winter
Example:
brown wintry grasses
Synonyms:
wintery; wintry
Classified under:
Similar:
brumal; hibernal; hiemal (characteristic of or relating to winter)
winter-blooming; winter-flowering (of plants that bloom during the winter)
Antonym:
autumnal (of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn)
summery (belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer)
vernal (of or characteristic of or occurring in spring)
Derivation:
winter (the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
Example:
wintry smile
Synonyms:
frigid; frosty; frozen; glacial; icy; wintry
Classified under:
Similar:
cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)
Context examples:
A strange figure he seemed to his three squires, perched on his huge horse, with his eyes upturned and the wintry sun shimmering upon his bald head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"That's my only comfort." And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Probably only in an increase, had that been possible, of the romantic feelings of fidelity and friendship with which I walked beside him, over the dark wintry sands towards the old boat; the wind sighing around us even more mournfully, than it had sighed and moaned upon the night when I first darkened Mr. Peggotty's door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To the left lay the green Island of Wight, with its long, low, curving hills peeping over each other's shoulders to the sky-line; to the right the wooded Hampshire coast as far as eye could reach; above a steel-blue heaven, with a wintry sun shimmering down upon them, and enough of frost to set the breath a-smoking.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She would very gladly have gone out to enjoy the bright wintry weather, but discovering that Laurie was dropping with sleep in spite of manful efforts to conceal the fact, she persuaded him to rest on the sofa, while she wrote a note to her mother.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But there I was; and soon I was at our house, where the bare old elm-trees wrung their many hands in the bleak wintry air, and shreds of the old rooks'-nests drifted away upon the wind.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My sisters, you see, have a pleasure in keeping you, said Mr. St. John, as they would have a pleasure in keeping and cherishing a half-frozen bird, some wintry wind might have driven through their casement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The dead robber swung slowly to and fro in the wintry wind, a fixed smile upon his swarthy face, and his bulging eyes still glaring down the highway of which he had so long been the terror; on a sheet of parchment upon his breast was printed in rude characters;
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each hugging her little warm turnover, and each trying to be cheerful in spite of wintry weather, hard work, and the unsatisfied desires of pleasure-loving youth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
