- of, relating to, or occurring at a certain season or certain seasons of the year: seasonal labour
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
sea•son•al /ˈsizənəl/USA pronunciation
adj.
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- of or relating to the seasons of the year or some particular season;
periodical:seasonal work picking grapes.
n. [countable]
- a seasonal employee or product.
sea•son•al
(sē′zə nl),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
sea′son•al•ly, adv.
sea′son•al•ness, n.
- pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season;
periodical:seasonal work.
n.
- a seasonal product, employee, etc.:to hire seasonals.
- season + -al1 1830–40
sea′son•al•ness, n.
- Seasonal and seasonable are sometimes interchanged, probably because of their obvious connection with season. In edited prose and in formal speech these two adjectives are almost always distinguished. Seasonal describes phenomena that occur with or depend upon a season or the seasons:seasonal fluctuations in rainfall; seasonal sales.Seasonable in reference to weather means "suitable to or characteristic of the season'':a seasonable December; seasonable temperatures for July.Seasonable also has the sense "timely, opportune'':a seasonable offer of financial assistance.
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seasonal /ˈsiːzənəl/ adj
'seasonal' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bloom
- diapause
- Hotan
- kill
- Kutch
- lodge
- Molopo
- monsoon
- phase
- Poona
- SAD
- seasonal affective disorder
- transhumance
- Vertumnus
- al
- bracero
- chad
- collection
- gear
- hydrograph
- light therapy
- monsoon low
- off-islander
- rain
- Rossel Current
- unseasonal
- weight
- year-rounder
- savanna
- seasonable
- spalpeen
- starling