WINTRY

adj. 1 hiemal, brumal, hibernal; icy, snowy, freezing, frozen, frosty, cold, frigid, bitter (cold), chilly, chilling, piercing, cutting, glacial, Siberian, arctic, hyperborean It was cold and the sky was clear and wintry with premonitions of frost 2 cold, frigid, chilly, cool, chilling, glacial She got a very wintry reception from Dan's parents, who disliked the idea of their living together 3 forbidding, bleak, dismal, cheerless, dreary, harsh, unfriendly, ugly, menacing, ominous, threatening, dark His comment about her age evoked only a wintry look from Margot