Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

winterly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: win-ter-ly
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to winter.

adj

Happening in winter.

adj

Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.

Example Sentences

"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."
"If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wynturlych, winterlice
Suffix: winter

Inflected Forms

more winterly (comparative) most winterly (superlative)

Derived Forms

winterliness

Synonyms

winter winterish wintery wintry hiemal

Questions

What does winterly mean?: Of or relating to winter.
Where does winterly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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