wintry
adjective
of or characteristic of winter: wintry skies.
wintrier
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comparativeof wintry.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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But for all its sunshine and sad, brave wisdom, “Alcarràs” was, for me, outmatched by a much wintrier competition title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
And perhaps on one or two of life's wintrier nights some sort of spiritual comforter thrown over all.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
As is usual, all the inside men-servants slept, wintrier and summer, in the barn; and that accounts for our good fortune this night.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
The wild wind of the Winter’s Tale at its opening would seem to blow us back into a wintrier world indeed.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
The wintrier the time, the greener the hope.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
