Northwesterly

3 definitions found

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

  Northwesterly \North`west"er*ly\, a.
     Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  northwesterly
       adj 1: coming from the northwest; "northwesterly winds" [syn: {northwest}]
       2: situated in or oriented toward the northwest [syn: {northwestern},
           {northwest}]

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

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "northwesterly":
     NNW, NW, NW by N, NW by W, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal,
     east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost,
     hyperborean, meridional, north, north-northwest, northbound,
     northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern,
     northernmost, northwest, northwest by north, northwest by west,
     northwestern, northwestward, northwestwardly, northwestwards,
     occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly,
     southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest,
     southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western,
     westernmost