Inclement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inclement \In*clem"ent\, a. [L. inclemens; pref. in- not +
     clemens mild: cf. F. incl['e]ment. See {Clement}.]
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     1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of
        tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
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     2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the
        elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy;
        rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. --Cowper.
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              The guard the wretched from the inclement sky.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Teach us further by what means to shun
              The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!
                                                    --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inclement
       adj 1: (of weather of climate) physically severe [ant: {clement}]
       2: used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy;
          "the harse sentence of an inclement judge" [ant: {clement}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "inclement":
     Siberian, algid, arctic, astringent, austere, bad, below zero,
     biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blustery, boreal, bowelless,
     brisk, brumal, brutal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death,
     cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cruel, cutting, dog-eat-dog,
     dour, extreme, flinty, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid,
     glacial, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, hibernal, hiemal,
     hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inexorable,
     intemperate, keen, merciless, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating,
     piercing, pinching, pitiless, rainy, raw, relentless, remorseless,
     rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy,
     snappy, squally, stern, stone-cold, stormy, stringent, subzero,
     supercooled, tempestuous, uncompassionate, uncompassioned,
     unfeeling, unforgiving, ungentle, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying,
     unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding,
     violent, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, without mercy