summery

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/ˈsʌməɹi/

adjective

Relating to the summer.

“She wore a light summery dress.”

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Meanings

summery1

adjectivesummery (comparative summerier, superlative summeriest)

comparative summerier · superlative summeriest

  1. Relating to the summer.

    She wore a light summery dress.

    Synonyms: aestival, estival, summer

  2. Of weather, typical of summer.

    Synonyms: summerish, summerlike, summerly

summery2

noun
  1. 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, →ISSN
    1 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

adjectiveRelating to the summer.

adjectiveOf weather, typical of summer.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivebelonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer

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aestivalestivalsummer-floweringsummer-blooming

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishsomery
  2. Englishsummery

From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer + -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).

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Translations

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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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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