wintry

Other forms of wintry

comparative or superlative

wintrier

comparative or superlative

wintriest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wintry

What does wintry mean?

wintry means "characteristic of or occurring in winter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wintry?

wintry has 2 syllables: win-try. The stress falls on "win". In IPA it is /ˈwɪntɹi/.

What is another word for wintry?

Close synonyms include wintery, frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wintry?

The recorded antonyms are vernal, summery, autumnal.

Is wintry a common word?

wintry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.