northwesterly

Questions about northwesterly

What does northwesterly mean?

northwesterly means "coming from the northwest". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in northwesterly?

northwesterly has 4 syllables: north-wes-ter-ly. The stress falls on "wes". In IPA it is /ˌnɔɹˈθwɛstɚli/.

What is another word for northwesterly?

Close synonyms include northwest, northwestern, northwest. 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 northwesterly a common word?

northwesterly 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.