estival

1. 1.

   (rare) of or occurring in summer

   “the sky was a burnished aestival blue”

   “estival winds”

   Synonymsaestival

   Similarsummery

Questions about estival

What does estival mean?

estival means "(rare) of or occurring in summer".

How many syllables are in estival?

estival has 3 syllables: e-sti-val. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for estival?

Close synonyms include aestival. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is estival a common word?

estival is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.