wintryadjective
uk/ˈwɪn.tri/us/ˈwɪn.tri/wintry adjective (LIKE WINTER)
typical of winter:
It looks like this wintry weather is here to stay.
This afternoon we may see some wintry showers (= snow mixed with rain) over higher ground.
Wintry conditions are making roads hazardous for drivers.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- nuclear winter
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
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wintry adjective (EXPRESSION)
literary unfriendly and disapproving:
She gave a wintry smile.
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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