Inclement \In*clem"ent\, a. [L. inclemens; pref. in- not +
clemens mild: cf. F. incl['e]ment. See Clement.]
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1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of
tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
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2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the
elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy;
rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. --Cowper.
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The guard the wretched from the inclement sky.
--Pope.
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Teach us further by what means to shun
The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inclement
adj 1: (of weather of climate) physically severe [ant: clement]
2: used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy;
"the harse sentence of an inclement judge" [ant: clement]
WordNet (r) 2.0
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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