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climatically

climatically

1 6.9
In a way that relates to a place's weather and temperature
  • adverb
  • /klaɪˈmætɪkli/
: climáticamente
  • Cities located in climatically warm areas often have different building materials compared to those in cooler regions.

Examples

  • The climatically harsh conditions in the Arctic make survival for most species extremely challenging.

  • In climatically diverse regions, the types of crops that can be grown vary significantly.

  • First, the earth is no longer climatically the earth we evolved to live in.

    Blog text (16)
  • The 21st century is probably going to require them to be particularly climatically mobile anyway.

    Blog text (31)
  • Things can change quickly and suddenly, socially, politically, or climatically, making it impossible to leave.

    Blog text (18)
  • Our 1992 insect releases occurred in climatically different regions across North America.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Climatically, Hong Kong is subtropical and has a hot, humid summer with much rain.

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  • A smooth transitional path to a climatically benign economy based on hydrogen has already been devised.

    Academic text (1999)
  • A primary consideration in the establishment of insect control agents is their ability to adapt either climatically or genetically to their surroundings.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Within ten years, nearly one-half of them, originally of guadua, had been converted to the more prestigious but climatically less adapted cement blocks.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

climatologically
vsclimatically
  • Specialized
1 8.1

In a way that is about climate and long term weather patterns

is about general conditions of weather or regional environment

Surface Forms

climatically positive

Morphology

climatically = climatic (transparent) = climate + ic + ally

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'climatic' with the suffix '-ally', so the meaning is straightforwardly recoverable.

Etymology

The word climatically comes from climate, which means the 'usual weather' of a place. So when we say something happens climatically, we mean it happens 'because of' or 'about' the climate there.