southeasterly

Questions about southeasterly

What does southeasterly mean?

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

How many syllables are in southeasterly?

southeasterly has 5 syllables: so-u-thea-ster-ly. The stress falls on "thea".

What is another word for southeasterly?

Close synonyms include southeast, southeast, southeastern. 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 southeasterly a common word?

southeasterly 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.