Meaning

A quantity that lasts or is produced during a winter..

Definitions by Sense

1. A quantity that lasts or is produced during a winter.
2. Characteristic of or occurring during winter.

Example Sentences

“Maybe it's just a little snow and not a whole winterful,” suggested Alice, as she climbed out of bed to look.

After a winterful of Germans, the Italians seemed gay, cheerful, and hard-working, though their war losses were bitter.

Every spring my mother would throw open the house like a cellar door, and a whole winterful of dust balls, grocery bills, and horehound drops would come rolling out to linger on the hollyhocks awhile and be caught at last in the handfuls of slick cottonwood fuzz that tumbled slowly eastward out of town.

He will find that if he goes to New York a week or so in the spring he may see the six or eight plays of the season which have been good enough to last that long, and that he may thus spare himself the suffering of attending a winterful of flops.

Darkness everywhere, a whole winterful of it at his back.

Here spreads a cosy net of little fields Secured with hedges, wild and winterful, Watching the year revolve.

Snow is king in winterful Wisconsin, in the season of the year that is fast-becoming famous in the land of lakes and forests and great hills.

Snow and more snow was here, was there, What a winterful, wonderful sight!

Word Forms

• winterfuls
• wintersful
• more winterful
• most winterful

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When Should You Use Winterful?

Use winterful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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