Meanings
comparative more summerlike · superlative most summerlike · alternative summer-like
- Resembling or characteristic of summer.
Summerlike heat in the dead of winter – even if much of the continent is still below freezing – is an alarming development for a place more capable than any other of generating catastrophic sea level rise as fossil fuel pollution continues to drive global temperatures upward.
2024 March 8, Mary Gilbert, “‘Astonishing’ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal”, in CNN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*s(e)m-eh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-h₂-ór-o-
- Proto-Germanic*sumaraz
- Proto-West Germanic*sumar
- Old Englishsumor
- Middle Englishsomer
- Englishsummer
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishsummerlike
Translations
Finnish kesäinen
- kesäinenresembling or characteristic of summer.
German sommerlich
- sommerlichresembling or characteristic of summer.
Hungarian nyárias
- nyáriasresembling or characteristic of summer.
Norwegian sommerlig
- sommerligresembling or characteristic of summer.
Cite this entry
summerlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summerlike
“summerlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summerlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summerlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summerlike.
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