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Synonyms for wintry

  • adjective

Most common

cold frosty icy frigid hibernal brumal dreary snowy

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Cold

cold, frosty, icy, frigid, freezing cold, ice-cold, frozen, glacial, hyemal, nippy, boreal, forbidding, gelid formal

2. Hibernal — suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy

hibernal, brumal, hiemal rare

3. Dreary — chilling, cheerless

dreary, bleak

4. Snowy — containing sleet or snow

snowy, sleety

Other

stone-cold, grisly, hoary, winterish, winterly

Antonyms

hot, vernal, scorching

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

  2. adj. 2

    Containing sleet or snow.

    It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

  3. adj. 3

    Chilling, cheerless.

  4. adj. 4

    Aged, white-haired.

Related words

Other spellings
wintery

Example sentences

  • icy It was mad of him to try to swim in the icy water.
  • frosty Young plants should be protected in frosty weather.
  • frigid Tom fell through the ice into the frigid water.
  • grisly He shuddered with horror at the grisly sight.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
wintryrising
icyrising
frostyrising
frigidrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
icy2
4 letters
cold1
5 letters
snowy2, bleak1, nippy2, hoary2, gelid
6 letters
frozen2, frosty2, dreary2, frigid2, boreal, grisly2, sleety, hyemal, brumal, hiemal
7 letters
glacial2
8 letters
hibernal, winterly
9 letters
winterish
10 letters
forbidding3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (icy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
hivernal
Deutsch
winterlich