Winter — wintry; summer — summery; spring — ?; autumn — ?
wintry: characteristic of winter, esp. in feeling or looking very cold and bleak: "a wintry landscape".
summery: belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; "summery weather";
What are the words that mean characteristic of spring and autumn, respectively? For example:
a
springlylandscape; anautumnlylandscape
What about American English, where one uses fall instead of autumn?
Solution 1:
A great thing about English is its rich lexicon. These are the seasonal adjectives that come to mind:
- hiemal/hibernal
- vernal
- estival
- autumnal
Incidentally, two of the above also have verb forms: hibernate and estivate.
Solution 2:
We would probably say springlike or vernal (more technical) to refer to spring.
For autumn (fall) we would say autumnal or fall-like.
Solution 3:
Most common case is that people would just use the season name in the adjective sense, e.g. "spring flowers", "summer weather", "fall leaves".
If you do need a single word that evokes the meaning that it is characteristic of the season yet not of the season, then "spring-like" is your best bet. But in common usage, that meaning is established by context, as in "spring flowers in the winter."