northeastwardly

1. 1.

   in a northeastward direction

   “the river flows northeastward to the gulf”

   Synonymsnortheastward

Questions about northeastwardly

What does northeastwardly mean?

northeastwardly means "in a northeastward direction".

How many syllables are in northeastwardly?

northeastwardly has 5 syllables: nor-the-as-tward-ly. The stress falls on "as".

What is another word for northeastwardly?

Close synonyms include northeastward. 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 northeastwardly a common word?

northeastwardly 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.