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fairweather

fairweather is the alternative spelling of fair-weather.

Meaning of fair-weather

Adjective

fair-weather (not comparable)

  1. Suitable for use only during fair weather.
  2. (usually) Dependable only in the absence of trouble.

Proper noun capitalized: Fairweather

Fairweather (plural Fairweathers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fairweather

pluralFairweathers

Phrases with fairweather

Questions about fairweather

What does fairweather mean?
Fairweather means a surname.
What is fairweather the alternative spelling of?
Fairweather is the alternative spelling of fair-weather.
What part of speech is fairweather?
Fairweather is a proper noun.

Words near fairweather in the dictionary

  1. fairwaters
  2. fairway
  3. fairway wood
  4. fairway woods
  5. fairways
  6. fairweather
  7. fairweather friend
  8. fairweather friends
  9. Fairweathers
  10. Fairwood
  11. fairy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairweather (page history and authors); Fairweather (page history and authors); fair-weather (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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