westerly

Examples

• All

• Northwest winds are around five miles per hour, becoming westerly in the afternoon.

  Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)

• Sailing westerly from Jamaica would have put him in Central America.

  Fiction book (1999)

• So, so we'll just say that's going to be, you know, at six miles here in the westerly direction, OK?

• Norma said to take the warm westerly to the Iron Mountain.

  Deep (2017)

• We continued westerly, favored by good winds as before.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Sixty miles westerly.

  Ghost Ship (2002)

• Although the wind at our position is westerly, it is part of a low-pressure system, which circulates in a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere, unlike at home.

  Blog text (7)

• We sailed westerly across the open sea, heading towards the setting sun.

• The hikers traveled westerly along the trail to reach the coastal cliffs.

• As the storm approached, the winds shifted westerly, indicating a change in weather.

Synonyms

W

west

vswesterly

553 1.0

Toward the side where the sun sets

often also describes coming from that sunset direction

W

westbound

vswesterly

20 2.8

Going toward the west

can instead indicate origin from the sunset side

D

due west

vswesterly

10 1.2

The direction straight to the west on a compass

is broader and can mean simply toward or from that side

W

westward

vswesterly

4 2.7

Moving toward the west

also means coming from the sunset side

Antonyms

E

eastward

15 1.0

Toward the east across land and sea

E

easterly

1 3.5

Moving from the east

Compounds

P

prevailing westerly

• Specialized

1 6.1

A wind that usually blows from the west in regions with mild weather

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology