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Antonyms for sleety
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : slee-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli ti |
Definition of sleety
- As in shivery : adj cold
- As in cold : adj chilly, freezing
- The day was dark and lowering, with occasional showers of cold and sleety rain.
- Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
- It was a snowy and sleety April morning, and she had already had experience of its rigour. '
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- Peter turned that over in his mind the whole of a raw and sleety February.
- Extract from : « The Lovely Lady » by Mary Austin
- It was a dark, sleety night, for cold weather had just set in.
- Extract from : « Ralph on the Engine » by Allen Chapman
- He answered with a sleety chill: "You care more for the dog than you do for me."
- Extract from : « Excuse Me! » by Rupert Hughes
- Though a drizzly, sleety day, it did not dampen our ardor—nor that of the mosquitos.
- Extract from : « In Search of a Siberian Klondike » by Homer B. Hulbert
- The wind blew, and the sleety rain fell, and I went back to the inn.
- Extract from : « Christmas Evans » by Paxton Hood
- The roads were sleety and skiddy, and required careful driving.
- Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
- The clatter of sleety rain against the windows made him restless.
- Extract from : « The Patient Observer » by Simeon Strunsky
- Slow faring through the sleety drizzle, they have got to the Champ-de-Mars: Not there!
- Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle
Synonyms for sleety
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- chilly
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- shivery
- Siberian
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
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