southwesterly

Questions about southwesterly

What does southwesterly mean?

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

How many syllables are in southwesterly?

southwesterly has 4 syllables: south-we-ster-ly. The stress falls on "we".

What is another word for southwesterly?

Close synonyms include southwest, southwest, southwestern. 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 southwesterly a common word?

southwesterly 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.