weather-wise
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See also: weatherwise
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From weather + wise (“having wisdom”).
Adjective[edit]
weather-wise (comparative more weather-wise, superlative most weather-wise)
- Skilled in predicting changes in the weather.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178:
- He glanced with a weatherwise eye at the sky now falling into evening tones - placid and still. "Drought's breaking, but this weather ought to hold for a bit."
- (figurative) Skilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adverb[edit]
weather-wise (not comparable)
- With respect to weather.
- 1988, Richard Condon, Prizzi's glory, page 1:
- Early in December, a rotten day weatherwise, Charley Partanna, CEO of the Prizzi family, sat behind his desk
- 2000, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir:
- Newfoundland is at the end of the line weather-wise, the last stop for storms that come across the continent or up the Atlantic seaboard
Translations[edit]
regarding the weather
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