Definition of "wintry"

wintry

/ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/

adjective
comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest
1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
  Quotations
  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.
  1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, page 19
2. (of precipitation) Containing sleet or snow.
3. Aged, white-haired.
4. Chilling, cheerless.
  Quotations
  He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
  1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Bounder's Folly