Meanings
summery1
comparative summerier · superlative summeriest
- Of weather, typical of summer.
Synonyms: summerish, summerlike, summerly
summery2
- misspellingMisspelling of summary.
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.
2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
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.
1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VII, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 451
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf weather, typical of summer.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebelonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishsomery
- Englishsummery
From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).
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Arabic صَيْفِيّ
- صَيْفِيّ (ṣayfiyy)relating to the summer
Bulgarian летен, летен
- летен (leten)relating to the summer
- летен (leten)of weather, typical of summer
Dutch zomers
- zomersrelating to the summer
Esperanto somera, somera
- somerarelating to the summer
- someraof weather, typical of summer
Finnish kesäinen, kesäinen
- kesäinenrelating to the summer
- kesäinenof weather, typical of summer
French d'été, estival
- d'étérelating to the summer
- estivalrelating to the summer
- d'étéof weather, typical of summer
- estivalof weather, typical of summer
German sommerlich, Sommer-
- sommerlichrelating to the summer
- Sommer-relating to the summer
- sommerlichof weather, typical of summer
Greek καλοκαιριάτικος, καλοκαιριάτικος
- καλοκαιριάτικος (kalokairiátikos)relating to the summer
- καλοκαιριάτικος (kalokairiátikos)of weather, typical of summer
Hungarian nyári, nyárias
- nyárirelating to the summer
- nyáriasof weather, typical of summer
Italian estivo
- estivorelating to the summer
Polish letni, letni
- letnirelating to the summer
- letniof weather, typical of summer
Portuguese estival, estival
- estivalrelating to the summer
- estivalof weather, typical of summer
Russian ле́тний, ле́тний
- ле́тний (létnij)relating to the summer
- ле́тний (létnij)of weather, typical of summer
Spanish veraniego
- veraniegorelating to the summer
Swedish somrig, sommar-
- somrigrelating to the summer
- sommar-relating to the summer
- sommar-of weather, typical of summer
- somrigof weather, typical of summer
Ukrainian лі́тній
- лі́тній (lítnij)relating to the summer
Welsh hafaidd, hafaidd
- hafaiddrelating to the summer
- hafaiddof weather, typical of summer
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Cite this entry
summery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summery
“summery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summery. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summery.
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