winterly

English

Etymology

winter +‎ -ly

Adjective

winterly (comparative more winterly, superlative most winterly)

1. Of or relating to winter.
2. Happening in winter.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem

     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.

3. Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to winter): winter
• (happening in winter): winter
• (characteristic of winter): winterish, wintery/wintry, hiemal

Derived terms

• winterliness