autumnal

English

Adjective

autumnal (comparative more autumnal, superlative most autumnal)

1. Of or relating to autumn.
2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:

     "The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful over-much,--that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron.

Hypernyms

• (of or relating to autumn): seasonal

Coordinate terms

• (pertaining to seasons): spring, vernal; summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumal

Derived terms

• aestivoautumnal, estivoautumnal
• autumnal equinox
• autumnal hawkbit
• autumnally
• autumnal moth
• autumnal point
• autumnal signs
• autumnal star
• Russian autumnal encephalitis

• autumnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Translations

of or relating to autumn

Catalan: autumnal (ca) Croatian: jèsēnjī (hr) Czech: podzimní (cs) Finnish: syksyinen (fi) French: automnal (fr) German: herbstlich (de) Hungarian: őszies (hu)

Latin: autumnalis (la) Polish: jesienny (pl) m. Portuguese: outonal (pt) Romanian: tomnatic m. and n., de toamnă Russian: осенний (ru) (osénnij) Spanish: otoñal (es) Swedish: höstlig (sv), höst- (sv)