Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vernal
IPA transcription: [v'ɝnəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: youthful, vernal, young
    Meaning: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age"
Usage examples
  • The walking is good and almost level and from the west end of Clouds' Rest take the Clouds' Rest Trail which will lead direct to the Valley by the Nevada and Vernal Falls.
  • For a two-day trip I would go straight to Mount Hoffman, spend the night on the summit, next morning go down by May Lake to Tenaya Lake and return to the Valley by Cloud's Rest and the Nevada and Vernal Falls.
  • And so fair was the world about them, too: the brightest suavest autumn weather; all the still air aromatic with that vernal perfume of peach: yet not so utterly still, but if I passed close to the lee of any floating thing, the spicy stirrings of morning or evening wafted me faint puffs of the odour of mortality over-ripe for the grave.