katabatic

1. 1.

   of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night

   Synonymscatabatic

   Antonymsanabatic

   meteorology

Questions about katabatic

What does katabatic mean?

katabatic means "of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night".

How many syllables are in katabatic?

katabatic has 4 syllables: ka-ta-ba-tic. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for katabatic?

Close synonyms include catabatic. 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 katabatic?

The recorded antonyms are anabatic.

Is katabatic a common word?

katabatic 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.