easterly

1. 1.

   a wind from the east

   Synonymseast windeaster

   Broaderwind

   Narrowerlevanter

1. 1.

   from the east

   “the winds blew easterly all night”

   Antonymswesterly

Other forms of easterly

plural

easterlies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about easterly

What does easterly mean?

easterly means "lying in or toward the east". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in easterly?

easterly has 3 syllables: ea-ster-ly. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈistɚli/.

What is another word for easterly?

Close synonyms include eastern, eastern, east wind, easter. 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.

What is the opposite of easterly?

The recorded antonyms are westerly.

Is easterly a common word?

easterly 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.