seawardly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Looking seawardly, we distinguish the bursting crests of long ridges of waves, and far off, where the cloud on the horizon has lifted apparently an inch or two, you can observe the irregular, peaked, and jagged outline of the agitated sea."
- "The environments in question include inland basins, seawardly dipping and off-shore sediments, low-permeability basement under a sedimentary cover, hard rocks in low-relief terrane and small islands."
- "He sent a keen, gray, seawardly glance at Miss Vanderholt, and fastened his gaze with an expression of attention upon her father."
Etymology
From seaward + -ly.