Whither

Quick meaning: Whither is an adverb meaning Interrogative senses.

Meaning

Interrogative senses.

More Meanings

1. Relative senses.
2. To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
3. To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
4. To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
5. To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
6. Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
7. (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.

Example Sentences

The whence and whither of their comings and goings made no impression on the community, and when they disappeared no one asked how or why.

To knovv the local beginnings of vvinds, is a thing vvhich requires a deep ſearch and Inquiſition, ſeeing that the VVhence and VVhither of vvinds, are things noted even in Scripture to be abſtruſe and hidden.

I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat—sure by the beating rain on the easement; sure by the ‘wuther’ of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay.

Mr. [Henry Charles] Carey usually gives his reader a bird's-eye retrospect, from his balloon at the end of each stage, of the where and whither or the zigzags and dark passages of the route gone over from the starting-point, where was the man upon a solitary island picking fruit, down to his present stopping-place.

Word Forms

• whithers
• whithering
• whithered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include where, path, direction, destination, whereabouts, place.

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