squally
/ˈskwɔːli/
squally adjective: characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
Adjective (1)
squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)
- Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
- On the eighth of February the winds grew ſtrong and ſqually, accompanied with rain and a north-weſt ſwell;[…].1759, John Lindsay, A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758, page 107
- Feb. 9. 1820.[…]The night was rather squally and cloudy, with occasional showers.1824, John Davy, “Observations on the Specific Gravity and Temperature of Sea-Water, Made During a Voyage from Ceylon to England, in 1819 and 1820”, in David Brewster, Robert Jameson, editors, The...
- Producing or characteristic of loud wails.
- Something whimpered in the room—high and squally.1953, Annemarie Selinko, Désirée, William Morrow & Company, page 161
- One baby was three times as big as his brother and different in other ways. He wasn't bald and squinched and squally like most infants, but had a nimbus of red-gold hair and huge gray eyes and lay there smiling to himself.1984, Bernard Evslin, Hercules, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2012, →ISBN
Adjective (2)
squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)
- Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
- Red bird eyne (Primula veris flore rubro), and white bird eyne (albo), p. 784 , grow very plentifully in moist and squally grounds in the north parts of England, as in Harwood neere to Blackburn in Lancashire, and ten miles from Preston in Aundernesse, also at Crosby Rauenswaith, and Crag-close in...1633, Gerard, Herbal
- This method is accounted the best and cheapest way of hollow ditching, or draining, and will make the wettest squally land fit to bring very good corn, or to be laid down for grass, or other uses.1727, Richard Bradley, A Complete Body of Husbandry, page 123
- Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.
- It is enacted, That if at any time after the first day of May, any cloth or kerſie, through the default or negligence of the carders, spinners or weavers, or any of them, shall or do prove pursy, cockly, bandy, squally or rowy by warp or woof, […]1763, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth, volume VI, Joseph Bentham, page 98
squally meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
squally in Tamil
- திடீர்க்காற்றுமழை மிகுதியாகவுள்ள, திடீர்க்காற்று மழையினால் பாதிக்கப்படுகிற, புயலாகச் சீறியடிக்கிற, கொந்தளிக்கிற, புயலார்ந்த, பேய்ப்புயலடிக்கும் நிலையிலுள்ள
squally in Malayalam
- gusting, stormy, gusty
- കാറ്റും കോളുമുള്ള, ചണ്ഡവാതമായ, ചണ്ഡവാതമടിക്കുന്ന, കൊടുങ്കാറ്റുള്ള, കോളുള്ള, പ്രചണ്ഡമായ
Examples of squally in a sentence
- Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.2011, Mary Maclaren, The Four Elizabeths, Xlibris, published 2011, →ISBN, page 138:
- They grow in my garden, where they flourish exceedingly, except Butterwoort, which groweth in our English squally wet grounds,1882, John Ruskin, Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers:
Synonyms of squally
Forms of squally
| comparative | squallier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more squally |
| superlative | squalliest |
| superlative | most squally |
Origin of squally
From squall + -y; from 1719.
Probably related to scall + -y.
Words formed from squally
Words that rhyme with squally
Questions about squally
- What does squally mean?
- Squally means characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
- What is squally in Tamil?
- Squally in Tamil is திடீர்க்காற்றுமழை மிகுதியாகவுள்ள, திடீர்க்காற்று மழையினால் பாதிக்கப்படுகிற, புயலாகச் சீறியடிக்கிற. See Squally meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use squally in a sentence?
- Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.
- What part of speech is squally?
- Squally is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce squally?
- Squally is pronounced /ˈskwɔːli/.
Words near squally in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: squally (page history and authors); squally (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squally (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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