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BAD WEATHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Weather unsuitable for outdoor activities
Synonyms:
bad weather; inclemency; inclementness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bad weather" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bad weather"):
raw weather (unpleasantly cold and damp weather)
storminess (the state of being stormy)
cloud cover; cloudiness; overcast (the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds)
turbulence (instability in the atmosphere)
Antonym:
good weather (weather suitable for outdoor activities)
Context examples:
Rough weather last three days, and all hands busy with sails—no time to be frightened. Men seem to have forgotten their dread. Mate cheerful again, and all on good terms. Praised men for work in bad weather. Passed Gibralter and out through Straits. All well.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another week of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as that very evening brought her brother down from London again in quite, or more than quite, his usual cheerfulness, she had nothing farther to try her own.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The six boats, spreading out fan-wise from the schooner until the first weather boat and the last lee boat were anywhere from ten to twenty miles apart, cruised along a straight course over the sea till nightfall or bad weather drove them in.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
