south southeast

1. 1.

   the compass point midway between south and southeast

   Synonymssou'-sou'-eastSSE

   Broadercompass point

Questions about south southeast

What does south southeast mean?

south southeast means "the compass point midway between south and southeast".

What is another word for south southeast?

Close synonyms include sou'-sou'-east, SSE. 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 south southeast a common word?

south southeast 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.