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inclimate

inclimate is the misspelling of inclement.

Meaning of inclement

Adjective

inclement (comparative more inclement, superlative most inclement)

  1. Stormy, of rough weather; not clement.
    • inclement weather
    Synonyms:
    foul
  2. (obsolete) Merciless, unrelenting.
    • He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “34”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  3. (archaic) Unmercifully severe in temper or action.

Forms of inclimate

comparativemore inclimate
superlativemost inclimate

Questions about inclimate

What is inclimate the misspelling of?
Inclimate is the misspelling of inclement.

Words near inclimate in the dictionary

  1. inclemency
  2. inclement
  3. inclemently
  4. inclementness
  5. incles
  6. inclimate
  7. inclin'd
  8. inclinable
  9. inclinableness
  10. inclination
  11. inclinational

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inclimate (page history and authors); inclement (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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