What does westerly mean?
Westerly means Facing the west; directed towards the west..
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/ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/ · adjective
Facing the west; directed towards the west..
a westerly course or voyage
Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.
the westerly side of a lake
The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
a westerly wind
Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
Use westerly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Westerly means Facing the west; directed towards the west..
Common synonyms include westly, zephyr, westward, ponent.
Possible antonyms include easterly, eastward, eastern, westward.
a westerly course or voyage
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