against the wind

1. 1.

   in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing

   “they flew upwind”

   Synonymsupwindinto the wind

Questions about against the wind

What does against the wind mean?

against the wind means "in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing".

What is another word for against the wind?

Close synonyms include upwind, into the wind. 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 against the wind a common word?

against the wind 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.