wintry

adj

Etymology: From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

   “wintry weather”

   “A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.”

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. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.

   “a wintry remark”

   “He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.”