wintry

Etymology

From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).

adj

1. Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
   wintry weather
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.
   a wintry remark
   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