anabatic

1. 1.

   of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope

   “an anabatic wind”

   Antonymskatabatic

   meteorology

Questions about anabatic

What does anabatic mean?

anabatic means "of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope".

How many syllables are in anabatic?

anabatic has 4 syllables: a-na-ba-tic. The stress falls on "ba".

What is the opposite of anabatic?

The recorded antonyms are katabatic.

Is anabatic a common word?

anabatic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.