Antonym: windward. Similar words: rewarding, beware, prewar, lukewarm, award, inward, warden, toward. Meaning: ['lɪːwə(r)d] 
n. 1. the direction in which the wind is blowing 2. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind. adj. on the side away from the wind. adv. toward the wind.
n. 1. the direction in which the wind is blowing 2. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind. adj. on the side away from the wind. adv. toward the wind. 
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(31) The capital of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, on the southern end of Basse-Terre Island in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. Population, 3, '5'.
(32) A medium-thick shelterbelt can reduce wind velocity by more than 10 percent to a distance of 20 times the tree height on the leeward side and three times the height to the windward.
(33) The boats sails, for example, are always on the leeward side of the boat.
(34) Country Report: Jamaica, Belize, Windward and Leeward Islands, with Country Profile.
(35) Irene formed as a tropical storm east of the Leeward Islands on Aug. 20.
(36) A boat's leeward side is the side that is or, when she is head to wind, was away from the wind.
(37) An overseas department of France comprising the islands of Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre and smaller islands in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies.
(38) Each rise correlates with the windward-facing slope of the terrain, while declines in cloudiness are found in valleys on the leeward side.
(39) Finally, some historic craft have leeboards instead of centerboards; these boards, mounted outside the hull on both sides, can be pivoted down like a centerboard to resist leeward motion.
(40) When the wind dropped[sentencedict.com], the boat sagged away to leeward.
(41) Frontal slope is increased in the upward side , but decreased in the leeward side.
(42) This pearl of the pacific is one of the group of Leeward Islands and is the northernmost.
(43) In this paper, the method and some skills of drawing isogram and leeward axial graph of concentration about diffusion of contaminant in environmental forecasting are presented.
(44) Able to sail close to wind with little drift to leeward.
(45) The aerodynamic shadow zone means an area of vortex caused by wing field, which lies in the leeward side and the top of building. Sentencedict.com
(46) The research results showed that the boosted wind speed or the velocity of gas leakage accelerated the gas diffusion, and the diffused gas concentration to the leeward side was decreased.
(47) There are multiple vertical upwarding zones in the warm side when thein the leeward side.
(48) Atlantic Tropical Storm Karen faded into a tropical depression and was likely to dissipate soon, with winds of 35 mph about 495 miles east of the Leeward Islands.
(49) There are multiple vertical upwarding zones in the warm side when the cold front passages in the leeward side.
(50) He has been identified as 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward, an air racer, movie stunt pilot and real estate developer from Florida.
(51) They were sailing leeward.
(52) The taller volcanoes have dryer leeward sides as well, but even the leeward side can get soaked in a KK storm.
More similar words: rewarding, beware, prewar, lukewarm, award, inward, warden, toward, forward, awkward, inwards, hardware, eastward, inwardly, untoward, put forward, afterward, bring forward, awkwardness, look forward to, straightforward, upwardly mobile, agree with, glee, flee, sleep, sleek, fleet, sleepy, sleeve.