Wintry vs Freezing - What's the difference?
wintry | freezing |
suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy
aged, white(-haired etc.)
chilling, cheerless
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
* 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
As adjectives the difference between wintry and freezing
is that wintry is suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy while freezing is (literally) suffering or causing frost.As a noun freezing is
(uncountable|physics|chemistry) the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.As a verb freezing is
.wintry
English
Alternative forms
* winteryAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* (suggestive or characteristic of winter) brumal, hibernal, hiemalDerived terms
* unwintry * wintrify * wintrily * wintriness * wintry mix * wintry showerReferences
*freezing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icyNoun
(wikipedia freezing)- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.