inclement

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=clem=ent

CIDE DICTIONARY

inclement, a. [L. inclemens; pref. in- not + clemens mild: cf. F. inclément. See Clement.].

•  Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.  [1913 Webster]
•  Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

  "The guard the wretched from the inclement sky."  [1913 Webster]

  "Teach us further by what means to shun
  The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inclement, adj. (of the weather or climate) severe, esp. cold or stormy.

Derivative

inclemency n. (pl. -ies). inclemently adv.

Etymology

F incl{eacute}ment or L inclemens (as IN-(1), CLEMENT)

THESAURUS

inclement

Siberian, algid, arctic, astringent, austere, bad, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, blustery, boreal, bowelless, brisk, brumal, brutal, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cruel, cutting, dog-eat-dog, dour, extreme, flinty, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inexorable, intemperate, keen, merciless, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, pitiless, rainy, raw, relentless, remorseless, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, squally, stern, stone-cold, stormy, stringent, subzero, supercooled, tempestuous, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungentle, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, violent, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, without mercy

ROGET THESAURUS

inclement

Severity

N severity, strictness, harshness, rigor, stringency, austerity, inclemency, arrogance, precisianism, arbitrary power, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression, assumption, usurpation, inquisition, reign of terror, martial law, iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway, tight grasp, brute force, brute strength, coercion, strong hand, tight hand, hard lines, hard measure, tender mercies, sharp practice, pipe-clay, officialism, tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture, accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors, severe, strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative, coercive, tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial, inclement, cruel, haughty, arrogant, precisian, severely, with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, manu forti, ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno.

Pitilessness

N pitilessness, inclemency, severity, malevolence, pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless, unpitying, unmerciful, inclement, grim-faced, grim-visaged, incompassionate, uncompassionate, inexorable, harsh, unrelenting.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.