summerlessadj.
/ˈsʌmələs/, U.S. /ˈsəmərləs/ Having no summer; not summery. Also figurative.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to summer > not summer
summerless1832
unsummerly1869
unsummered1879
unsummerlike1880
1832 Reviewer 29 Apr. 72/2 The springtide and the budding and the dew Of our sweet love soon past but summerless It went, and immatured.
1879 Mem. G. S. Arnold 104 A summerless tomorrow.
1882 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 77 The summerless season.
1921 Ecology 2 107 A profusion of traditions marks the year 1816 as a summerless year.
2005 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 1 Feb. 8 She is relishing Perth's summer warmth after spending the past two years in ‘summerless’ Glasgow as a member of the Scottish Ballet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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