Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 situated in, or pointing to, the southeast 2 (context chiefly of a wind English) coming from the southeast adv. From the southeast. alt. 1 situated in, or pointing to, the southeast 2 (context chiefly of a wind English) coming from the southeast n. A strong wind or storm from the southeast.
WordNet
adj. coming from the southeast; "southeasterly breezes" [syn: southeast]
situated in or oriented toward the southeast [syn: southeast, southeastern]
Usage examples of "southeasterly".
In the autumn the southeasterlies came barreling up from Abor one after another, making the outward trip to the fishing grounds a swift pleasure, but beating back in their teeth was hard, intense work, and it called for fine judgment on the helm to keep the wind on the port bow.
By then, word had come from Moscow via Pittsburgh Central that the Piper had altered course, from a southeasterly heading which would take them to Washington to a course south by west, toward the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia.
Those foothills were near the caravan route from Altaruk to Gulg so, to give the marauders a wide berth, he headed on a diagonal, southeasterly course, rather than going straight south.
The skimmer headed off in a southeasterly direction, a reinvigorated Pip resting on the deck near his feet.
For as the sheer bluff angled out from Bellon Falls some fifty leagues north and west, the mighty bluff curved southeasterly and away, two hundred and fifty miles or so in a long bend, the last hundred miles of which the cliff and the land atop slowly fell down a long, long slope to eventually descend to the level of the banks of the Argon flowing in the land below.
Eight F-14s dipped their starboard wings in unison, swinging off their southeasterly course to align themselves with the distant, oncoming bogies, between the bombers and the oncoming MiGs.
Judging by the compass course they'd been forced to steer, their sails strapped in tight against the southeasterly trades, they knew they had been sailing parallel to, rather than toward, the coast of South America.
It covered an irregularly triangular area that stretched for five miles or so along the banks of Havilbove Fluence, jigged in a southeasterly way down to the outskirts of Mazadone Forest Preserve, and swung by roundabout curves back toward the river to the north.
Just before they reached the fort, General Jackson had set out on an expedition in a southeasterly direction, to what was called Horseshoe Bend, on the Tallapoosa River.
A dry, southeasterly breeze helped it change state into vapor, sucking up latent heat in the process.