英和和英

語源

From winter +‎ -y; compare 古期英語 wintriġ (a parallel formation).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
• (General American) enPR: ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/, [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]
• 韻: -ɪntɹi
• ハイフネーション: win‧try

形容詞

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

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

   wintry weather

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, OCLC 977517776, page 19:

     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. (of precipitation) 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.
   • 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly

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

   a wintry remark

同意語

• (suggestive または characteristic of winter): brumal, hibernal, hiemal

派生語

参照

• wintry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967