win·try

(wĭn′trē) also win·ter·y (wĭn′tə-rē)

adj. win·tri·er, win·tri·est also win·ter·i·er or win·ter·i·est

1. Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold.

2. Suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness: a wintry welcome.

win′tri·ly adv.

win′tri·ness n.

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wintriness

noun

Extreme lack of warmth:

frigidity, frigidness, frostiness, gelidity, gelidness, iciness.

Translations

شَتَوِيَّه

Kälte

téliesség

òaî aî vera vetrarlegur/kuldalegur

vinterstemning

kışa benzerlik

寒冷

wintriness

n → Winterlichkeit f

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winter

(ˈwintə) noun

the coldest season of the year. We often have snow in winter; (also adjective) winter evenings.

ˈwintry adjective

like winter in being very cold. a wintry day; wintry weather.

ˈwintriness noun

winter sports

sports played in the open air on snow and ice, eg skiing, tobogganing etc.

ˈwintertime noun

the season of winter.

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References in periodicals archive

A Met Office spokesman said: "Next week there will be colder spells and there could be a little bit of wintriness in the north, but nothing too exceptional for this time of year.

Warning over cold snap as month draws to a close

For instance, at the beginning of "The Fire Sermon," "the last fingers of leaf' that "clutch and sink into the wet bank" blend a vision of early wintriness (or late autumn) with a filigree evocation of Ophelia's drowning, she whose "good night ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night" (Hamlet, 4.5.69-70) has just been heard as the closing line of the previous section (ll.

Will in the "Waste Land": Shakespeare and Eliot Revisited

The preposition that structures the poem from its title ("during") signifies the stormy wintriness of old age in its connection between the emotional tumult of an unended and unending present (the duration of the poem) and the stoical endurance of the last years: sick leaves still reel down (l.

Life-lyrics: autobiography, poetic form, and personal loss in Hardy's Moments of Vision