Crossword clues for inclement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inclement \In*clem"ent\, a. [L. inclemens; pref. in- not + clemens mild: cf. F. incl['e]ment. See Clement.]
Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
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Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather.
--Cowper.The guard the wretched from the inclement sky.
--Pope.Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French inclément and directly from Latin inclementem (nominative inclemens) "harsh, unmerciful," from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + clementem "mild, placid." "Limitation to weather is curious" [Weekley].
Wiktionary
a. 1 stormy, of rough weather 2 (context obsolete English) merciless, unrelenting.
WordNet
Usage examples of "inclement".
The Mare Infinitus segment of the Tethys will be omitted from the tour if inclement weather or dangerous sea-life conditions prevail.
In weather so inclement that the copters were grounded, massive plastic panels closed over the entire station, sealing it tightly at surface level.
That, whereas, the cold and inclement season of the year is fast approaching, we hold it to be our duty as soldiers and citizens of the United States, to inform our Government that the majority of our prisoners ate without proper clothing, in some cases being almost naked, and are without blankets to protect us from the scorching sun by day or the heavy dews by night, and we would most respectfully request the Government to make some arrangement whereby we can be supplied with these, to us, necessary articles.
Inclement weather prevented him from performing routine maintenance around the ranch, with electric heat and plenty of cord wood for the fireplaces, he had little to do during the winter months except hunker down and wait for spring.
There are several factors, some or all of which may be concerned in the cause of rheumatism, such as, focal infection, acidity, heredity, toxaemia, and exposure to inclement weather.
His accession of a newspaper stand-simply the right of usage-actually no more than a shed protecting him from inclement weather, had marked the pinnacle of his social ascension.
She said to me that at the present time all the streets were provided against inclement weather in the manner I saw, the apparatus being rolled out of the way when it was unnecessary.
One hundredth year of Queen Alianora -- The harvests having been poor these three years due to the inclement conditions, and the royal stores of grain being exhausted, the queen of her mercy remitted the third part of the tax due from every household within the royal demesne.
There had turned out to be plenty of lesser criminals to man the inclement space stations: those that had some potential to reform and return eventually to society.
Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called CROW'S-NESTS, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.