"wintry" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/ [General-American], [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wintry.wav [Southern-England] Forms: wintrier [comparative], wintriest [superlative]
enPR: ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē Rhymes: -ɪntɹi Etymology: From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|winter|y}} winter + -y, {{cog|ang|wintriġ}} Old English wintriġ Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)
  1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. Categories (topical): Winter Synonyms (suggestive or characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal Translations (suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy): χειμέριος (kheimérios) (Ancient Greek), شَتَوِيّ (šatawiyy) (Arabic), ձմեռային (jmeṙayin) (Armenian), зімо́вы (zimóvy) (Belarusian), зі́мні (zímni) (Belarusian), мразовит (mrazovit) (Bulgarian), gwavek (Cornish), mrazivý (Czech), ledový (Czech), vintra (Esperanto), talvinen (Finnish), hivernal (French), hibernal (French), invernal (Galician), invernizo (Galician), ზამთრული (zamtruli) (Georgian), ზამთრის (zamtris) (Georgian), საზამთრო (sazamtro) [nonstandard] (Georgian), სუსხიანი (susxiani) (Georgian), ცივი (civi) (Georgian), winterlich (German), télies (Hungarian), invernale (Italian), hiemālis (Latin), hibernalis (Latin), žiemiškas (Lithuanian), geuragh (Manx), pūhuka (Maori), vinterlig (Norwegian), زمستانی (Persian), zimowy (Polish), hibernal (Portuguese), invernal (Portuguese), invernoso (Portuguese), iernatic (Romanian), холо́дный (xolódnyj) (Russian), зи́мний (zímnij) (Russian), geamhradail (Scottish Gaelic), geamhrachail (Scottish Gaelic), invernal (Spanish), -a baridi sana (Swahili), vintrig (Swedish), зимо́вий (zymóvyj) (Ukrainian), invernal (Venetian), gaeafol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-wintry-en-adj-twZ52KTN Disambiguation of Winter: 51 4 18 26 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 8 36 38 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 9 34 41 Disambiguation of 'suggestive or characteristic of winter': 97 0 1 1 Disambiguation of 'suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy': 94 1 1 4
  2. (of precipitation) Containing sleet or snow.
    Sense id: en-wintry-en-adj-ESinlvRA
  3. Aged, white-haired. Translations (aged, white(-haired etc.)): harmaahapsinen (Finnish), седо́й (sedój) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-wintry-en-adj-YvG2ALM9 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 8 36 38 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 9 34 41 Disambiguation of 'aged, white(-haired etc.)': 1 2 92 5
  4. Chilling, cheerless. Translations (chilling, cheerless): безрадостен (bezradosten) (Bulgarian), fagyos (Hungarian), уны́лый (unýlyj) (Russian), неприветливый (neprivetlivyj) (Russian), oer (Welsh), oeraidd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-wintry-en-adj-pZ53dTo9 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 6 31 40 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 8 36 38 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 9 34 41 Disambiguation of 'chilling, cheerless': 2 2 4 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wintery Derived forms: unwintry, wintrily, wintriness, wintry mix, wintry shower

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Persian",
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          "word": "زمستانی"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
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          "word": "iernatic"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xolódnyj",
          "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
          "word": "холо́дный"
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          "roman": "zímnij",
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          "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
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          "lang": "Swahili",
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          "word": "-a baridi sana"
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          "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
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          "roman": "bezradosten",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wintery"
    }
  ],
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}
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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪntɹi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪntɹi/2 syllables",
    "en:Winter"
  ],
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      "word": "unwintry"
    },
    {
      "word": "wintrily"
    },
    {
      "word": "wintriness"
    },
    {
      "word": "wintry mix"
    },
    {
      "word": "wintry shower"
    }
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        "2": "winter",
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
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        "2": "wintriġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English wintriġ",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wintrier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "wintriest",
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    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "wintry weather"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03",
          "text": "In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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          "suggestive"
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        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic"
        ],
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          "winter",
          "winter"
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          "cold",
          "cold"
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          "stormy",
          "stormy"
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    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Containing sleet or snow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sleet",
          "sleet"
        ],
        [
          "snow",
          "snow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of precipitation) Containing sleet or snow."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of precipitation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Aged, white-haired."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Aged",
          "aged"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a wintry remark"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Bounder's Folly",
          "text": "He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Chilling, cheerless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chilling",
          "chilling"
        ],
        [
          "cheerless",
          "cheerless"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪntɹi"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter",
      "word": "brumal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter",
      "word": "hibernal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter",
      "word": "hiemal"
    },
    {
      "word": "wintery"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šatawiyy",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "شَتَوِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "jmeṙayin",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "ձմեռային"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zimóvy",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "зімо́вы"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zímni",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "зі́мні"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mrazovit",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "мразовит"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "gwavek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "mrazivý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "ledový"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "vintra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "talvinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "hivernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "hibernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernizo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "zamtruli",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "ზამთრული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "zamtris",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "ზამთრის"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sazamtro",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "word": "საზამთრო"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "susxiani",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "სუსხიანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "civi",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "ცივი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "winterlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kheimérios",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "χειμέριος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "télies"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernale"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "hiemālis"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "hibernalis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "žiemiškas"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "geuragh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "pūhuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "vinterlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "زمستانی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "zimowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "hibernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "iernatic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xolódnyj",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "холо́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zímnij",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "зи́мний"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "geamhradail"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "geamhrachail"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "-a baridi sana"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "vintrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zymóvyj",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "зимо́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "invernal"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy",
      "word": "gaeafol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "aged, white(-haired etc.)",
      "word": "harmaahapsinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sedój",
      "sense": "aged, white(-haired etc.)",
      "word": "седо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezradosten",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "безрадостен"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "fagyos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "unýlyj",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "уны́лый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprivetlivyj",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "неприветливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "oer"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "chilling, cheerless",
      "word": "oeraidd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wintry"
}

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