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aestival

aestival is the alternative spelling of estival.

Meaning of estival

Adjective

estival (comparative more estival, superlative most estival)

  1. Of or relating to summer.
    • A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt; a loud auto, a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually; the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk; the image...1938, James Agee, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
    Synonyms:
    summery, summer
  2. Coming forth in the summer.
    • […] begin now to redden in abundance on the trees, and continue throughout the month, and part of the next; more particulars of which will be found in our catalogue of aestival fruits. The birds now begin to be very active in devouring the fruits, ...1824, Thomas Forster, The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack, page 328

Forms of aestival

comparativemore aestival
superlativemost aestival

Origin of aestival

From Latin aestivalis.

Words formed from aestival

Words that rhyme with aestival

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Questions about aestival

What is aestival the alternative spelling of?
Aestival is the alternative spelling of estival.

Words near aestival in the dictionary

  1. aesthetized
  2. aesthetizes
  3. aesthetizing
  4. aestho-physiology
  5. aestiferous
  6. aestival
  7. aestivate
  8. aestivated
  9. aestivates
  10. aestivating
  11. aestivation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aestival (page history and authors); estival (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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