Autumnal
belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn:
autumnal colors.
past maturity or middle life.
Contemporary Examples
The pumpkin seeds, trapped in the heat of the caramel, are imbued with an autumnal, resiny resonance.
Pumpkin Seed Brittle The Daily Beast November 24, 2008
These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return.
Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley John Garth November 2, 2013
Colors were vivid and autumnal, including fuchsia and olive green with metallic shimmers.
Valentino, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week Liza Foreman March 3, 2014
Historical Examples
With that she sighed, for the thought recalled to her the melancholy of an autumnal landscape.
Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) Margaret Veley
The day was sunny but cold, and there was a feeling of autumnal dampness in the air.
The Opal Serpent Fergus Hume
The autumnal laying of the China and of the common goose is very valuable for this purpose.
Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Robert Jennings
Where autumnal fevers are common they are usually of similar character.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West J. M. Peck
Spica, however, is a star of the first magnitude, and lies a little east of the place of the autumnal equinox.
Letters on Astronomy Denison Olmsted
The snow had gone off in a thaw, releasing a multitude of autumnal aromas.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Atkinson
On these I spent days observing and enjoying the autumnal activities of Beaverdom.
The Spell of the Rockies Enos A. Mills
adjective
of, occurring in, or characteristic of autumn
adj.
1570s, from Latin autumnalis “pertaining to autumn,” from autumnus (see autumn).
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