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 and divides as a-na-ba-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.