Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

southwardly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: south-ward-ly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Southwards, towards the south.

adj

Southwards, towards the south.

Example Sentences

"As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset."
"The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American."
"Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly) from the generally northward terrestrial field."

Etymology

From southward + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: southward

Inflected Forms

more southwardly (comparative) most southwardly (superlative)

Questions

What does southwardly mean?: Southwards, towards the south.
Where does southwardly come from?: From southward + -ly.

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