summery
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).
Adjective
editsummery (comparative summerier, superlative summeriest)
- Relating to the summer.
- She wore a light summery dress.
- Of weather, typical of summer.
Synonyms
edit- (relating to the summer): aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier)
- (of weather, typical of summer): summerish, summerlike, summerly
Derived terms
editTranslations
editrelating to the summer
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of weather, typical of summer
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editsummery
- Misspelling of summary.
- 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VII, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars[1], volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 451:
- We are reasonably certain that every reader will understand the danger and downright immorality of using quotation marks in a careless or flippant manner, that only a person’s actual words may be placed in quotation marks, and that a summery or paraphrase must be so labeled or identified.
- 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visual summery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power.
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