monsoonal

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adjective

Relating to monsoons.

OriginProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English monsoon →
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Meanings

adjectivemonsoonal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to monsoons.

    Who fishes in the yellow-coloured monsoonal runoff from the drainages, with sheets of deep water pouring into the wide rivers swollen over their banks, filling vast plains with floodwaters?

    2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 3

Origin

  1. Englishmonsoon
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishmonsoonal

From monsoon + -al.

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APA

monsoonal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoonal

MLA

“monsoonal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoonal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monsoonal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsoonal.

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