单词 | wintry |
释义 | wintryadj.adv. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to winter; occurring, existing, or found in winter; adapted or suitable for winter. Now rare or merged in sense A. 2.Now largely replaced by winter used attributively (see winter n.1 Compounds 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to winter wintryeOE winterOE winterlyOE frostyc1430 brumala1522 hiemalc1560 wintering1591 winterish1610 wintereda1616 hiematical1631 hibernal1646 wintersome1840 mid-wintry1852 mid-winterly1892 the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to winter > having the character of or resembling winter wintryeOE winterly1547 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 11 Þonne on þæm wintregum tidum wyrþ se muþa fordrifen foran from þæm no[r]þernum windum. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. iv. 392 Swa deð eac se ðe wintregum weder[um] wile blostman [se]can. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. G.v The fysher drawes the wyntrye seas [L. hiberno ex aequore], whylste I doo sytte at ease. 1590 J. Hammon tr. B. Aneau Αλεκτορ xvii. 108 The time of the Brume about the 14. of December and wintrie Solstice when the Sunne entreth the Tropick of Capricorne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hyvernal, winterie, winterlie. 1645 J. Milton Passion i, in Poems 17 In Wintry solstice like the shortn'd light Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 The wise Ant her wintry Store provides. View more context for this quotation 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 133 To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn. 1795 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 20 Her berries red, With which the fieldfare, wint'ry guest, is fed. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 40 Where the wintry edifices had fallen. 1903 J. H. Boner Poems 50 From wintry solstice come, The sun that coaxed these blossoms to the boughs. 2004 Independent on Sunday 7 Nov. 11/1 My regular reports of our wintry antics encourage the hackers of Hinksey Heights to set up their own version. 2. Having the quality of winter; of such a kind as occurs in winter; characteristic of winter. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Brumalis A foule wintrie daye. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. Lv When wintry storme his wrathful wreck does threat. 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. iv. 152 The stormie weather is ouer, the dashing wintry showres quite gone. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island viii. v. 108 Glad that in wintrie night they fire had found. 1713 N. Rowe Jane Shore ii. 24 The Wintry Sky Descends in Storms. 1786 R. Burns Poems 166 The Wintry West extends his blast. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed ii, in Tales Crusaders I. 34 A barbed horse and his rider will fear to stem the wintry flood. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 120 At this period, the climate of equinoctial lands might resemble that of the present temperate zone, or perhaps be far more wintery. 1876 C. F. Hall Polar Exped. 415 Great ice-crystals..gave the vessel a wintery appearance. 1926 B. Johnston Let. 10 Oct. in Lett. Home 1926–45 (1998) 5 The weather is getting quite wintry now, compared with the summery weather we had at the beginning of this half. 1936 H. Nicolson Let. 7 Apr. (1966) 256 Luncheon..was held in a winter-garden, more wintery than gardeny. 1979 A. Brink Dry White Season iv. ii. 286 The pale autumn days growing ever more wintry. The leaves falling, the trees barer, drier. 2014 C. Tóibín Nora Webster viii. 124 She imagined now how strange it would be in December and January, how storm-swept and wintry. 3. figurative with various shades of meaning. a. Aged; infirm or withered as a result of old age. Of hair: white with age. Also applied to old age, esp. as the bringer of infirmity, decay, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > decrepit or senile decrepit?a1500 wintry1579 superannated1605 superannate1608 superannuated1616 superannuate1647 doitereda1790 doitering1828 rickety1841 senile1847 nodded1887 geriatric1968 the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > white whiteOE wintry1579 the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary grey1207 hoarc1290 frostya1450 forhoaredc1450 grizzled1458 hoary1530 hoared1557 greyish1567 wintry1579 silver1590 silveredc1600 silver-grey1607 frosted1628 iron-grey1809 iron-greyed1826 grizzly1843 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 29 What wreaked I of wintrye ages waste. 1607 H. Raymonde Maiden Queene sig. C4v Old wintry age, in grisly furrowes now, Callends of death indents vpon my brow. 1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs vii. i. 43 in Purple Island Cold, wintry, wither'd Tithon. 1658 T. Bancroft Heroical Lover viii. 84 The hoary Elders wintry faces. 1749 London Evening-Post 21 Sept. The Furrows of the antiquated..wintry Face. 1779 H. Cowley Albina iv. 56 Thou sure shalt prove my Daughter what thou said'st, And leave these wintry locks drench'd in my blood. 1839 York Herald 22 Sept. I saw that aged bridegroom, with his white and wintry hair. 1886 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 10 Dec. 6/6 The little old gentleman with wintry locks and time-seamed countenance was an inconspicuous passenger on a Harlem train. 1903 Manch. Guardian 3 Feb. 7 It was a great little speech, compact of the kindliness of his wintry age and the settled wisdom of a long life. 1954 C. L. Tarter Family of Destiny xxxiv. 267 An aging rabbi stroked his long, wintry beard. 2006 Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. (T2 section) 21 Bleach's gaunt, wintry face appears, Beckett-style, from within a brazier... He looks like an antique retainer borrowed from the Addams Family. b. Lacking warmth or brightness; dismal, dreary, cheerless. Also: devoid of fervour or affection. Cf. frosty adj. 6b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lukewarm or lacking enthusiasm > lacking passion wintry1748 neutrologistic1824 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lix. 281 Nodding at each other in two opposite chimney-corners, in a winter-evening, and over a wintry love. 1779 E. B. Greene Satires Persius Paraphrastically Imitated ii. 22 When wintry frowns the blazing hearth inspire, Hard times! a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 399 Nothing of such an influence do I feel. My body is all wintry. 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy xliii. 329 A faint wintry kind of hope. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. vi. 110 Her cold face shone..with the wintry light of a forced smile. 1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/3 His latest work met with a somewhat wintry welcome. 1906 Smart Set Apr. 147/1 Some thirty minutes later, came Mrs. Smythe..with a wintry expression which rested on her face as though skewered with pins. 1959 W. Golding Free Fall 134 He could smile, too, not a wintry smile but a genuine one of joy and friendliness. 1975 R. Davies World of Wonders (1977) i. vii. 63 ‘How you scholars underestimate us artists,’ he said, with wintry Scandinavian melancholy. 2003 M. Cobley Wintergod (2004) xiii. 197 He..bestowed a wintry smile on the cheering crowd as they passed by. 2016 Times (Nexis) 18 June (Sat. Review) 48 The court of Athens is ruled over by a wintry fascist Theseus.., surrounded by blackshirts. 4. Exposed or subject to the effect or influence of winter; chilled or blasted by winter. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > made cold or cool > by winter wintry1693 1693 C. Mather Winter-medit. 81 In some Wintry Countreys, the Carpenters must Thaw their Wood, before they can Cut it. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 302 When he leaves the frost Of wintry Xanthus. 1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 203 In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains. 1799 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues vi, in Poems II. 226 This poor cottage..Fleeced with that grey and wintry moss. 1803 R. Heber Palestine 8 The wintry top of giant Lebanon. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxviii. 142 The wintry loneliness Of those dead leaves. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xii. 108 Endless avenues and cross-avenues of wintry trees! 1918 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 464/2 You saw nothing but a field or two of bleached wintry grass. 1962 Life 5 Jan. 54/3 (caption) With new assurance John Regan..strides past wintry trees from church. 2015 Western Morning News (Nexis) 4 Jan. 10 Above me, wintry tree branches speared the clear blue sky. B. adv. Modifying an adjective (esp. cold): to an extent or in a manner typical or suggestive of winter. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > coldly or without warm feeling freezinglya1420 coldly1550 frostily1616 coolly1627 chilly1640 wintry1691 chillinglyc1784 icily1825 wintrily1843 frozenly1851 frigidly1883 chillily1886 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 370 It growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all over-spread the earth. 1783 W. Blake Poet. Sketches 11 His face is fair as heav'n, When springing buds unfold; O why to him was't giv'n, Whose heart is wintry cold? 1892 W. Watson Poems 9 Thine..Is wintry chill. 1907 Everybody's Mag. Dec. 847/3 People clad in furs (for it was wintry cold) passed into the cafés around him. 2012 D. O'Connor Paw Tracks 104 In November of that year the nights were wintry cold. Compounds wintry mix n. chiefly U.S. a mixture of various forms of precipitation associated with cold weather, typically including freezing rain, sleet, and snow; precipitation in this form. ΚΠ 1970 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 27 Nov. 19/2 (heading) Wintry mix for much of Wisconsin. 1985 Chicago Tribune 1 Jan. i. 16/4 A storm in the Midwest will produce a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain. 2010 N.Y. Mag. 8 Mar. 41 Last week's miserable ‘wintry mix’ notwithstanding, the time for spring-cleaning is nigh. Derivatives ˈwintrily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > coldly or without warm feeling freezinglya1420 coldly1550 frostily1616 coolly1627 chilly1640 wintry1691 chillinglyc1784 icily1825 wintrily1843 frozenly1851 frigidly1883 chillily1886 1843 Colburn's United Service Mag. July 378 At this moment the sublime peaks of the gigantic Frenchman [sc. a mountain] glanced glorious in the sun, whose golden beams were wintrily reflected from its snowy steeps. a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 159 Thou..dost shiver Wintrily sad. 1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 613/1 She..began..to smile wintrily. 1951 Musical Times 92 554/2 Enjoyably vigorous, close-wrought music and a wintrily evocative middle movement. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Mar. 13 Life feels deeply, wintrily joyless. It feels wall-to-wall grey. ˈwintriness n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter > wintry quality winter day1612 wintriness1824 winterliness1840 1824 Bell's Life in London 22 Aug. 270/1 With all this winteryness he is still a boy—a link-boy. 1843 tr. F. Bremer President's Daughters xxxi. 99/1 The wildness and wintriness of the North drew me with irresistible power toward it. 1916 Spectator 18 Mar. 383/1 On some morning when the harvest's done, And autumn its first wintriness reveals. 1961 Shakespeare Q. 12 435 This was an autumnal Margaret, lacking the sheer wintriness, the icy blasts, with which old Genevieve Ward used to scarify the Old Vic. 2015 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 5 Dec. 14 There's..nothing like ditching traditional wintriness and jetting off to hike in warmer climes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.eOE |
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