west southwest

1. 1.

   the compass point midway between west and southwest

   SynonymsWSW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about west southwest

What does west southwest mean?

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

What is another word for west southwest?

Close synonyms include WSW. 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 southwest a common word?

west 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.