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   wintry

   /ˈwɪntri/

   adjective

   • 1. characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak: "a wintry landscape" Similar bleakcoldchillyfrostyfreezingicysnowyicy-coldarcticglacialfrigidbitterbitingpiercingsharprawinformal:nippyparkyBalticliterary:chillrare:hyperboreanhibernalhiemalbrumalunfriendlycoolchillycoldfrostyfrigidglacialbleakdistantremoteOpposite summerybalmyhotfriendlywarm

   Word Origin Old Englishwintrig (see winter, -y1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. wintrily adverb
   • 2. wintriness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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