summery

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sŭmʹə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: summary

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

summery (comparative summerier, superlative summeriest)

1. Relating to the summer.

   She wore a light summery dress.

2. Of weather, typical of summer.

Synonyms

• (relating to the summer): aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier)
• (of weather, typical of summer): summerish, summerlike, summerly

Derived terms

• summeriness

Translations

relating to the summer

• Arabic: صَيْفِيّ (ṣayfiyy)
• Belarusian: ле́тні (ljétni)
• Bulgarian: летен (leten)
• Cornish: havek
• Dutch: zomers (nl)
• Esperanto: somera
• Finnish: kesäinen (fi)
• French: d'été, estival (fr)
• Galician: estival (gl)
• Georgian: საზაფხულო (sazapxulo), ზაფხულის (zapxulis), ზაფხულური (zapxuluri) (nonstandard)
• German: sommerlich (de), Sommer- (de)
• Greek: καλοκαιριάτικος (el) (kalokairiátikos)
• Hungarian: nyári (hu)
• Italian: estivo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھاوینی (hawînî)

  Northern Kurdish: havînî (ku)

• Manx: sourinagh
• Polish: letni (pl)
• Portuguese: estival (pt)
• Russian: ле́тний (ru) (létnij)
• Spanish: veraniego (es)
• Swedish: somrig (sv), sommar-
• Ukrainian: лі́тній (uk) (lítnij)
• Welsh: hafaidd (cy)

of weather, typical of summer

• Bulgarian: летен (leten)
• Esperanto: somera
• Finnish: kesäinen (fi)
• French: d'été, estival m
• Galician: estival (gl)
• Georgian: ზაფხულის (zapxulis), ზაფხულური (zapxuluri) (nonstandard)
• German: sommerlich (de)
• Greek: καλοκαιριάτικος (el) (kalokairiátikos)
• Hungarian: nyárias (hu)
• Portuguese: estival (pt)
• Russian: ле́тний (ru) (létnij)
• Swedish: sommar-, somrig (sv)
• Welsh: hafaidd (cy)

Etymology 2

Noun

summery

1. Misspelling of summary.
   • 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VII, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars‎^[1], volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 451:

     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.

   • 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

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