unsummered

English

Etymology

un- + summer + -ed

Adjective

unsummered (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Without summer or its warmth and joy; summerless.
    • c. 1917, W. B. Yeats, The Veiled Voices and the Questions of the Dark
      Yon wretch of whom none speak,
      Hoarder of shame when she has lost the sun
      And her poor tragedy is o'er and done
      And sealed and finished her unsummered days []
    • c. 1965, Louis Daniel Brodsky, "Reuben's: Early June Morning"
      The unsummered city shivers.
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