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[–] WhiteRonin ago 

Try: cold or Icey

Winter can go 2 ways. In this case, cold, bleak, Icey, Blizzard, white out, and such

The other option: romantic, fluffy, white, pristine, warmth, fire place

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[–] Xylophone [S] ago  (edited ago)

Interesting, I forgot about the warm aspect of winter. Surely wintry is of the first way though, in the context of this book?

That sounds weird to say, ironic that winter can be warm and nice, at the same time cold and deadly.

Related question: Could winter be considered lively?

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[–] WhiteRonin ago 

In the context of the story: deadly might work too.

Why would that be strange? Go outside depending on the snow your perspective changes. Come back inside and curl up with a good book by the fire place.

Lively? Ummm, not really, hibernation is a stronger image. However, sporty could work.

If English isn't your first language and your first language is more literal than symbolic English can be difficult. The English language has more than million words but Shakespeare only used 75,000, Milton used 55,000 and most daily conversation is between 3,500 to 5,000 or so. Because of this low count words start having lots of extra symbolism added. Ogden proposed that you could by on "farmer" level at 1,500 words.

Symbolism like "wintry" is how you take it. I'm just putting some ideas out, if one of them fits for you, great but it's still just my idea of what the author had meant.