Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling winter; characteristic of or appropriate to winter; wintry; cold and bleak; cheerless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to winter.
  • adjective Happening in winter.
  • adjective Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.

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Examples

  • Your note, I can scarcely tell why, hurt me, and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

  • Your note -- I can scarcely tell why, hurt me -- and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.

    Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

  • "Zimowe Gody" means as much as winterly mating season ... if I corectly translate the meanig in english (I use to read good books in english to improve my language skills).

    Brian Ruckley - News & Views 2008

  • After the winter solstice, and at the time when the zephyr usually begins to blow, severe winterly storms out of season, with much northerly wind, snow, continued and copious rains; the sky tempestuous and clouded; these things were protracted, and did not remit until the equinox.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • But long after the solstice, and near the equinox, much wintery weather out of season; and when now close to the equinox, northerly, and winterly weather for no long time.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • The wind was slowly veering toward the east, as the Grimsby man had predicted, with no sign of any storm as yet, but rather a prospect of winterly weather, and a breeze to bring the woodcocks in.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • January was drawing to its close; the weather was growing more and more winterly; high winds, piercingly cold, were raving through our narrow streets; and still the spirit of social festivity bade defiance to the storms which sang through our ancient forests.

    The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • Their place had been filled by a tangle of many saplings, and in their midst rose an elder-bush, already showing leaf, amid the bare winterly wood.

    The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

  • The wind was slowly veering toward the east, as the Grimsby man had predicted, with no sign of any storm as yet, but rather a prospect of winterly weather, and a breeze to bring the woodcocks in.

    Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

  • However it might be possible to give Count de Grasse an early hint of it in case you agree with him upon the winterly departure of the whole fleet for the West Indies.

    Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de 1837

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