south southwest

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   the compass point midway between south and southwest

   Synonymssou'-sou'-westSSW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about south southwest

What does south southwest mean?

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

What is another word for south southwest?

Close synonyms include sou'-sou'-west, SSW. 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 southwest a common word?

south southwest 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.