Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southwesterly \South`west"er*ly\, a. To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
Wiktionary
a. 1 situated in, or pointing to, the southwest 2 (context chiefly of a wind English) coming from the southwest adv. From the southwest
WordNet
adj. coming from the southwest; "the winds are southwesterly" [syn: southwest]
situated in or oriented toward the southwest [syn: southwest, southwestern]
Usage examples of "southwesterly".
Then we turned southwesterly, passed Lake Atun, and eventually reached the banks of the Aldur River on a fine spring morning.
It begins blowing southwesterly, that is, away from the Turkish heights and toward the harbor.
She was on the starboard tack, with the light southwesterly wind abaft the beam.
It just fell — in a slanting southwesterly direction, occasionally buffeted into tangles by gusting winds.
Her course was southwesterly, and in three days she had gone over the 750 leagues that separated it from La Perouse's group and the southeast point of Papua.
Hanging a bucket under the pipe leading from the roof, to catch any rain that might fall--for they remembered the scarcity of drinking-water on Jupiter--they set out in a southwesterly direction.