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sleety

[slee-tee] / ˈsli ti /
ADJECTIVE
cold
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bitter bleak brisk chilled cool crisp frigid frosty frozen icy intense raw snowy wintry
STRONG
Siberian arctic chill cutting hyperborean icebox keen sharp stinging
WEAK
algid below freezing below zero benumbed biting blasting boreal brumal frore gelid glacial have goose bumps hawkish hiemal iced inclement nipping nippy numbed numbing one-dog night penetrating piercing polar rimy severe shivery snappy two-dog night
Antonyms
STRONGEST
hot mild nice pleasant temperate warm
ADJECTIVE
shivery
Synonyms
WEAK
Siberian 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 snappy snowy stinging two-dog night wintry

Example Sentences

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The results of their hard work were met with excited cheers and shouts from hundreds of onlookers who braved the sleety weather to watch the daytime procession.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

New England is here after a sleety, soggy 28-16 playoff triumph over Houston, a contender that arrived in Foxborough riding a 10-game win streak, but left its offense at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Sherman and I met on a frigid, sleety day, and she was dressed fashionably to defy the weather in a big, blazing orange sweater, light-colored wide pants and bouncy, thick-soled white high-tops.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

A farm insurance agent, he was killed when his car was struck broadside on a rural Iowa road on a sleety February night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2019

Lesser waves dragged at him, trying to tug him back down the sand in their outgoing rush, and the mist parted and closed above him, and later a sleety rain beat on him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.