Synonyms:
wintry, wintery
Meaning: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"
Usage examples
Her parents were safely over their voyage on the wintry ocean, so a part of her worry of mind was lifted.
I thought of how far it was to Chicago, and then to Virginia, to Baltimore,--and then the great wintry ocean.
It was very gloomy in that cemetery, under an overcast sky, whence fell a semi-darkness already wintry in aspect.
Their shining breast was whiter than a swan's, and their plump sides gleamed and sparkled like ice under a wintry moon.
One by one the lights went out in every home in the valley, and only the stars were left shining, in the cold wintry sky.
Although it was not yet five o'clock, the wintry light was fading in the grey sky, and in the railway station it was already dark.
For a brief space, she thought, she had been like a torpid fly brought back to gay buzzing by the lighting of a fire in a wintry room.
And, so saying, she gayly galloped along, singing as she went, following the narrow path up hill and down dale through the wintry woods.
It was a wintry one. The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.
Every morning, when the wintry sun peered like a hard yellow eye across the dry corn-stubble, Jimmy felt sad, but at Christmas time his heart nearly broke.