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southwardly

southwardly adverb: southwards, towards the south.

Adverb

southwardly (comparative more southwardly, superlative most southwardly)

  1. Southwards, towards the south.
    • As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
    • The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American.1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming?

Adjective

southwardly (comparative more southwardly, superlative most southwardly)

  1. Southwards, towards the south.

Forms of southwardly

Adverb
comparativemore southwardly
superlativemost southwardly
Adjective
comparativemore southwardly
superlativemost southwardly

Origin of southwardly

From southward + -ly.

Questions about southwardly

What does southwardly mean?
Southwardly means southwards, towards the south.
What part of speech is southwardly?
Southwardly can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near southwardly in the dictionary

  1. Southville
  2. Southwaite
  3. southward
  4. southward equinox
  5. southward equinoxes
  6. southwardly
  7. southwards
  8. Southwark
  9. Southwater
  10. Southwell
  11. Southwellian

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