What's the difference between stormy and wintry?

Stormy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
  • (superl.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Warning of more stormy weather to come he urged people to remain on alert in regions due for more heavy rain this Wednesday and Thursday.
  • (2) At first, nasogastric feeding was beneficial, but a stormy hospital course ensued.
  • (3) This suggests that rapid cycling affective disorder could be an underdiagnosed disorder, especially in patients with affective disorders who are receiving conventional antidepressant drugs who otherwise exhibit a stormy clinical course with numerous medication changes and hospitalizations.
  • (4) "Increased storminess, and increased extreme weather events generally, are likely to stress trees further, especially veteran trees.
  • (5) Libya's rebel leader Khalifa Haftar has played Iago to various Othellos through four decades of the country's stormy history, but his emergence at the head of forces storming parliament has finally cast him as the lead.
  • (6) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
  • (7) No further pre-morbid types were developed in the following years, if one discards the somewhat rare "stormy" character (Arieti, 1955).
  • (8) The patients showed stormy life-styles, some specific symptoms, personality abnormalities, presence of life events before the onset of depression, and a family history of alcoholism.
  • (9) Selectivity is based on an antibiotic system (polymyxin B sulfate and neomycin sulfate) incorporated into the medium, coupled with an incubation temprature of 46 to 48 degrees C for 24 h. Tubes were scored as positive if a stormy fermentation was observed.
  • (10) "A cold stormy rain set in" – unseasonal for July.
  • (11) Friday’s march in Acapulco took place under stormy skies, filling the boulevard that rings the resort’s famous bay.
  • (12) The remaining 14 cases, all of them with less than 3 factors each, survived the stormy attacks.
  • (13) The Index had a slow and stormy birth, with twenty-three years of hard work put in until the first volume was issued.
  • (14) Convalescence is stormy and morbidity higher when the placenta is not removed.
  • (15) Mourinho was fined £25,000 on Wednesday morning after the FA ruled he had overstepped the line with his remarks about the “campaign” against Chelsea and, later in the day, the governing body brought the charge against Costa, following Tuesday night’s stormy Capital One Cup semi-final against Liverpool, which Chelsea won.
  • (16) The disease had a stormy course and was characterized by moderate splenomegaly, persistently depressed WBC counts, extramedullary hemopoiesis and presence of a high percentage of atypical myeloblasts in the peripheral smear.
  • (17) The postoperative course was stormy in all patients, with a high incidence of complications and 70% died.
  • (18) Feige's mother, whose health was poor, did not have the strength for Palestine or the stormy crossing back across the Mediterranean.
  • (19) Although the coronary dissolution was obtained finally following aggressive cardiac massage, administration of spasmolytic agents, such as NTG, lidocaine, DBcAMP and the start of IABP, the resolution was stormy due to the hemodynamic derangement.
  • (20) A potentially stormy congressional hearing over the IRS scandal has been scheduled for Friday, as both Democrats and Republicans look for heads to roll over alleged targeting of conservative groups.

Wintry


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That's a high price to pay for one day of cheers on a wintry Wednesday.
  • (2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
  • (3) The 30th Sundance film festival kicks off on Thursday in the mountain resort of Park City, Utah, against a backdrop of wintry conditions for the independent motion picture.
  • (4) Further wintry showers are expected to move south as the week progresses.
  • (5) Parts of northern England could see wintry showers on Saturday, while on Sunday many parts of the country will see both sunny spells and rain, she said.
  • (6) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
  • (7) A big chunk of the US is getting a blast of wintry weather under what Accuweather has called the worst ice storm of the year .
  • (8) Parts of Britain face continued freezing temperatures from wintry weather that has brought days of disruption to parts of the country.
  • (9) The north-west of England will be mainly wet with wintry showers through the day, especially on coasts.
  • (10) Since he became prime minister in 2013, Gunnlaugsson has overseen sensitive negotiations with the creditors of the three big Icelandic banks that collapsed during the 2008 crisis – while knowing, the leaked documents show, that his wife’s offshore company, Wintris Inc, which lost 515m kronur (£2.8m) in the crash, was owed a sizeable sum from their bankruptcies.
  • (11) The travel chaos ensuedon Sunday as the worst of the wintry showers came to an end across the country and forecasters predicted dry conditions and a partial thaw.
  • (12) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (13) Power has been restored to about 9,000 homes cut off by the wintry weather in the Peak District, according to Western Power Distribution.
  • (14) He just made it to the door as we left, standing with difficulty in the wintry sun: no fuss, no self-pity, just an immense courtesy that endured to the end.
  • (15) A h, the many Proustian pleasures to be derived from a renewed acquaintance with Roy Ward Baker 's 1958 Titanic melodrama A Night To Remember ... Last seen by me on some wintry Sunday afternoon in the prepubescent early 1970s, probably in the same post-prandial time-slot where I first encountered The Cockleshell Heroes, Carve Her Name With Pride and The Colditz Story – the dull roar of British postwar self-congratulation on film.
  • (16) Across the road, High Water has a kind of wintry European cabin feel, with wooden ceiling beams and another great cocktail menu.
  • (17) The Met Office said people in north Wales, northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland could expect severe gales with gusts of about 70mph and frequent wintry showers.
  • (18) Wintry showers are expected to hit the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday.
  • (19) Heavy wintry showers across southern Scotland will clear to leave a fine day with long spells of sunshine.
  • (20) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.