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wintry

/win-tree/US // ˈwɪn tri //UK // (ˈwɪntrɪ) //

寒冬,寒风,寒风凛冽,寒冷的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    win·tri·er, win·tri·est.

    • : of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
    • : resembling winter weather; having snow, frost, cold, storms, etc.: We had wintry weather well into May last year.
    • : suggestive of winter, as in lack of warmth or cheer: a wintry manner.

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Examples

  • Then on Saturday, a wintry mix of precipitation is possible throughout the region.

  • The snow or wintry mix could continue Saturday night as lows drop toward the 20s.

  • This drawn-out wintry weather event may come in two waves, traveling along an Arctic front draped over the Mid-Atlantic.

  • Light wintry precipitation arrives late night, most likely starting as rain or a mix and turning to snow.

  • Nor did Monday’s flake-filled skies and consistently wintry vibe seem to vanish as night and darkness drew on.

  • Begins: As soon as enough snow has fallen to turn even the most mundane things into lovely wintry sculpture.

  • December 13, cold and wet snow: the first day so wintry that Roland Moore rode out to his stock tank to break ice.

  • Sequined dresses were shown with long, thigh-grazing sweaters in dark, wintry colors.

  • The designer closed out the festivities with a bang—and served up dark, wintry clothes for spring amid piles of wreckage.

  • The place looked pretty bleak in the pelting snow and final minutes of wintry gray light.

  • She smiled back at him, a pale, timid smile, like a gleam of sunshine from a wintry sky.

  • Each day saw the wintry winds grow colder, and soon the ice upon Lake Luna was thick enough to bear.

  • Later had come lean and bitter years until finally his reputation dwindled like a gutted candle in a wintry room at midnight.

  • And then Lamb began to taste something like panic even as the first neon signs began to smear the wintry shadows.

  • Thick fog banks came sweeping past at intervals; a cold north-easterly gale conveyed a wintry feeling to the air.