Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🌬️ Windy and stormy 💥 Noisy and wild
squally

squally

7.4
Short periods of strong wind, often with rain or snow
  • adjective
  • /ˈskwɔːli/
translation icon : tempestuoso
  • The forecast warns of squally conditions with strong winds and possible rain this evening.

Examples

  • On June 12, he sketched in oils squally clouds over Brighton Beach.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Travelers should prepare for squally weather as the storm approaches the coastline.

  • We experienced squally thunderstorms that produced brief but intense gusts of wind.

Synonyms

stormy
vssqually
33 1.0

Strong winds and heavy rain that make travel difficult

features short-lived strong winds that are briefer and more sudden
gusty
vssqually
11 3.4

A wind that blows in sudden strong bursts

includes short strong winds that often come with rain or snow

Antonyms

clear
866 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

calm
735 1.0

Not showing strong feelings and being very still

How Windy

stormy
33 1.0
squally
7.4
windy
73 1.0
breezy
8 1.3
calm
735 1.0

Surface Forms

squally positive

Morphology

squally = squall (transparent) = squall + y

Formed from 'squall' + '-y' and directly describes weather characterized by squalls, so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Squally comes from squall, a word that sounds like a 'sudden loud wind or cry'. So squally weather means short, strong gusts of wind often with rain or snow.