What does weathery mean?
Weathery means Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation..
1960, Joseph Sargent Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and their Lore, Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Chapter 10, p. 67, Weather often means bad weather, a rain or snow storm: […] one may hear: “There’s no need of you goin’ out, it’s so weathery.”
In weathery days, when near, I loot thee in;
Between a film of weathery sky and a relatively quiet ebb tide of water near at hand like dar, dense surging waves […]
“It’s just that some people said it was a weathery day. It was foggy but it wasn’t weathery. It was a calm day, Mr Dove. A calm day.”
The people who lived in the village saw the house high in its weathery notch on the long ridge to the north, storm clouds fisting about it, or the white cumuli bunching past on their way to somewhere else,
[…] Bill slapped with all his might and main, on his leather old weathery cheek, enough to break his jaw.
It was a cluster of two-room cottages with weathery wood shingles in an oak forest,
He turns over the rough-hewn back of his hands to show that anyone can get a callus or two on the palms but only the seasoned farmer has weathery skin on the other side.
Use weathery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Weathery means Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation..
Common synonyms include stormy, windy, weathered, changeable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1960, Joseph Sargent Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and their Lore, Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Chapter 10, p. 67, Weather often means bad weather, a rain or snow storm: […] one may hear: “There’s no need of you goin’ out, it’s so weathery.”
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