Dictionary Entry
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.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
- 3noun
a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city
- 4noun
the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
- 5noun
the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
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- 6noun
the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point
- 7adjective
situated in or oriented toward the southwest
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- 8adjective
coming from the southwest
"the winds are southwesterly"
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- 9adverb
to, toward, or in the southwest
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