Westerly Synonyms and Antonyms

wĕstər-lē
Moving toward the west
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. western
  2. westbound
  3. westward
The winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prevailing westerly
From the west
(Adverb)
Antonyms:
  1. easterly

Words Related to Westerly

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. wind
  2. southerly
  3. south-westerly
  4. northerly
  5. north-westerly
  6. southwesterly
  7. south-easterly
  8. northwesterly
  9. north-easterly
  10. southeasterly

Westerly Sentence Examples

  • There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end.

  • The general course of the Benin is westerly.

  • By highway, the journey was fifty miles—ten miles north to Ridgway, then westerly to Placerville and then back toward the southeast, all necessary to circumnavigate fourteen-thousand foot Mount Sneffles and its towering neighbors.

  • The prevailing winds in this region, which the sea traverses longitudinally, are westerly, but the sea itself causes the formation of bands of low barometric pressure during the winter season, within which cyclonic disturbances frequently develop, while in summer the region comes under the influence of the polar margin of the tropical high pressure belt.

  • Farther south, in Patagonia, the prevailing wind is westerly, in which case the Andes again " blanket " an extensive region and deprive it of rain, turning it into an arid desolate steppe.

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