autumnly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From autumn + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]autumnly (comparative more autumnly, superlative most autumnly)
- 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
[edit]From autumn + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Adverb
[edit]autumnly (comparative more autumnly, superlative most autumnly)
- 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.