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autumnly

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English

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Etymology 1

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From autumn +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

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autumnly (comparative more autumnly, superlative most autumnly)

  1. Resembling or relating to autumn; fall-like.
    Synonym: autumnal
    • 1849, William Harrison Ainsworth, Ainsworth's Magazine:
      What visitor to Boulogne has left it without passing some hours in its tranquil cemetery? that garden of the dead, where summer lingers when all around looks autumnly and sere!
    • 1878, Isobel Black Gill, Six Months in Ascension, page 42:
      [] and the rustle of withered leaves under our horses' hoofs was a homely, autumnly sound.

Etymology 2

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From autumn +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

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autumnly (comparative more autumnly, superlative most autumnly)

  1. In a manner relating to or characteristic of autumn.
    • 2006, Benjamin Harshav, ‎Barbara Harshav, Sing, Stranger:
      Nights fume city-like and blow autumnly from cold roofs.
    • 2018, Edward Whymper, The Sea, volume 1, page 180:
      The hills around were autumnly frost-coloured; but not all the ideas the expression will convey to an artist could conjure up the reality.