wintry

Speech parts

1. wintry - Adjective

2. wintry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. Dylan Thomas

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. William Butler Yeats

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. Lytton Strachey

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens. John Millington Synge

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If it isn't wintry in January then expect the worst in February. Sicilian Proverb

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