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Southerly vs Southwardly - What's the difference?

southerly | southwardly |

As adverbs the difference between southerly and southwardly

is that southerly is in a southward direction or position; towards the south while southwardly is southwards, towards the south.

As a noun southerly

is a wind blowing from the south.

As an adjective southerly

is coming from the south.

southerly

English

Noun

(southerlies)
  • A wind blowing from the south.

    • Synonyms

    * auster

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • coming from the south.
    • Warm, moist air was brought by southerly winds
  • Facing the south; directed towards the south.
  • Located towards the south

    • Derived terms

    * southerliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a southward direction or position; towards the south.
  • From the south.
    • English contranyms

    southwardly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • southwards, towards the south
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As we proceeded southwardly , the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=H. G. Wells, title=What is Coming?, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=June 16, John G. Lyon, The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System, Science citation
    • , passage=Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly ) from the generally northward terrestrial field. }}