Witherward
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Witherward is an adjective meaning Adverse, contrary.
Meaning
Adverse, contrary.
More Meanings
- Opposite, opposing; hostile.
- Contrary to, against.
- Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
Example Sentences
at the witherward side of the year
Such a witherward and rotten friend she was.
Nor, although be sung the "mighty stream of tendency" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.
They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward: [...]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adversarious, fromward, thwartsome, contraire, contrarious, backward.
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