Dictionary

winterly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to winter.
2. Happening in winter.
   • One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way. 1913, Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem:
3. Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
   • If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May. 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:

Forms

Deriveds

winterliness

Synonyms

winterish (characteristic of winter) · winter (of or relating to winter) · wintery (characteristic of winter) · winter (happening in winter) · wintry (characteristic of winter) · hiemal (characteristic of winter)