easterly
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- adverb
- /ˈiːstərli/
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- The wind blew easterly, bringing a refreshing chill to the warm summer day.
Examples
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Bohoken's apartment is in a high-rise right on the water with a row of easterly-facing windows facing the Manhattan skyline.
Blog text (17) -
It was heading down around forty-seven degrees... ...easterly from Orion.
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Easterly?
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Well, last time, if I reconnoiter correctically... the north pole was sort of in a south-down-easterly... kind of over and down direction this way... magnellically speaking.
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Draper and Bownass examined the origin of the waves and showed that the local wind was a 10-knot (5 meters per second) easterly and not able to produce the effects observed (1983).
Academic text (2009) -
Far easterly across the sea in the land of Indus... ...there was, as you know, a powerful emir of Daibul... ...who was plagued by the malady of many rulers.
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In the morning, the storm shifted to an easterly direction, affecting our travel plans.
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After analyzing the weather patterns, we noticed consistent easterly winds during this season.
Synonyms
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A wind or direction that comes from the east
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
easterly = easter (transparent) = east + er + ly
The meaning is directly derived from 'east' + '-er' + '-ly', indicating a directional movement.
Etymology
Easterly as an adverb is built from east ('where the sun rises') with the ending -ly to show how something moves. So when weather or a current moves easterly, it comes 'from the east'.