BAD WEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bad weather mean? 

• BAD WEATHER (noun)
  The noun BAD WEATHER has 1 sense:

1. weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

  Familiarity information: BAD WEATHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAD WEATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bad weather; inclemency; inclementness

Hypernyms ("bad weather" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bad weather"):

raw weather (unpleasantly cold and damp weather)

storminess (the state of being stormy)

cloud cover; cloudiness; overcast (the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds)

turbulence (instability in the atmosphere)

Antonym:

good weather (weather suitable for outdoor activities)

 Context examples 

At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was owing to her persuasion, as she thought his being out in bad weather did him a great deal of harm.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In spite of the bad weather, and of the wind which especially hindered me, I was on deck from daylight till dark and making substantial progress.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The hard outer coat with its undercoat liner protects the dog from brambles, and bad weather.

(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must think of that, you must try to make up your mind to it as one of the hardships which fall to every sailor's share, like bad weather and hard living, only with this advantage, that there will be an end to it, that there will come a time when you will have nothing of that sort to endure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Because I am to hope for the satisfaction of seeing you at Woodston on Wednesday, which bad weather, or twenty other causes, may prevent, I must go away directly, two days before I intended it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She did not think herself a genius by any means, but when the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When it was bed-time, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: “You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)