autumnal.

Belonging to or resembling autumn.

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Words that belong together

• autumnal light
• autumnal woods

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Autumnal light reached the table before anyone came downstairs.

The autumnal woods opened around a carpet of copper leaves.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Use more or most only when a relative degree of the descriptive resemblance is natural; no artificial -er or -est forms. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.