west northwest

1. 1.

   the compass point midway between west and northwest

   SynonymsWNW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about west northwest

What does west northwest mean?

west northwest means "the compass point midway between west and northwest".

What is another word for west northwest?

Close synonyms include WNW. 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 west northwest a common word?

west northwest 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.