matutinal.

Occurring in or characteristic of the morning.

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Words that belong together

• matutinal light
• a matutinal routine

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Matutinal light reached the desk before the rest of the house awoke.

His matutinal routine began with the letter he would never answer.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Relational, temporal, or authenticity adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.