southwest
southwest is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
- adjective. Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
- noun. a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city
- noun. the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
- noun. the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
- noun. the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point
- adjective. situated in or oriented toward the southwest
- adjective. coming from the southwest
"the winds are southwesterly"
- adverb. to, toward, or in the southwest
Synonyms
southwestward, sw, southwesterly, southwestern, souwest
Common word forms
Words from these letters
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