Difference between Southwesterly and Southwest

What is the difference between Southwesterly and Southwest?

Southwesterly as an adjective is situated in, or pointing to, the southwest while Southwest as an adjective is towards the southwest, southwestwards, southwestern.

Southwesterly

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: From the southwest

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: situated in, or pointing to, the southwest coming from the southwest

Southwest

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225, abbreviated as SW.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Towards the southwest, southwestwards, southwestern.

Example sentence: The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

We hope you now know whether to use Southwesterly or Southwest in your sentence.

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