weather-wise

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English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From weather + wise (having wisdom).

Adjective[edit]

weather-wise (comparative more weather-wise, superlative most weather-wise)

  1. 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."
  2. (figurative) Skilled in predicting changes in conditions, such as of public opinion.

Etymology 2[edit]

weather +‎ -wise

Adverb[edit]

weather-wise (not comparable)

  1. 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
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