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🧭 Facing northeast 💨 From northeast
northeasterly

northeasterly

1 3.2
On the northeast side of a place like a building
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɔrˈθiːstərli/
translation icon : noreste
  • There was a flurry of movement on her board as they passed the Falls, looking from the air like a plume of smoke, and the jumper banked slightly, following the river's northeasterly curve.
  • northeasterly direction

Examples

  • To reach the lighthouse, you need to head northeasterly along the coastal road.

  • In a quick flash, water and land are seen in a northeasterly position, seemingly from the Pacific Ocean.

    Blog text (30)

  • Proceed in a northeasterly direction until you get to the rotunda, and from there head west through the fiction section.

    The Pagemaster (1994)

  • Detective Dormer gave chase... ...lost the suspect in the fog then heard a shot... ...coming from a northeasterly direction.

    Insomnia (2002)

  • The South Fault zone runs from Khargaon in western Madhya Pradesh in an east-northeasterly direction right up to the Rihand reservoir in southern Jharkhand in the east.

    Blog text (11)

  • The map indicates that the cabin is located in a northeasterly direction from here.

  • The team set off in a northeasterly direction to find the best viewpoint for the sunset.

Synonyms

northeastern
vsnortheasterly
  • US
54 2.8

In or from the top-right part of an area on a map

is used for place or direction generally not only for regions
northeast
vsnortheasterly
1 1.0

Coming from or facing toward the north and east

is used as an adjective meaning oriented toward that compass point

Surface Forms

northeasterly positive

Morphology

northeasterly = northeast (transparent) = north + east + erly

Formed from the clear compound 'northeast' plus the directional adjective-forming suffix '-erly', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Northeasterly is made from north and east plus the ending -ly, so it means 'toward the northeast' or 'on the northeast side'. Think of a window or road that faces the space between north and east on a map to remember it.