weather noun
ADJ. beautiful, excellent, fair, fine, glorious, good, ideal, lovely, perfect, superb | adverse, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, dismal, dreadful, foul, gloomy, grim, inclement, inhospitable, lousy, miserable, nasty, rotten, rough, terrible, vile, wretched | hot, humid, muggy, sultry, warm | mild | bright, clear, sunny | calm | dry | reliable, settled | changeable, fickle, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled | extreme, fierce, harsh, severe, violent, wild | bitter, cold, freezing, frosty, icy, wintry | cool | cloudy, grey | damp, rainy, wet | foggy | blustery, stormy, windy | unseasonable/unseasonal, unseasonably/unseasonally … a spell of unseasonally wet weather.
QUANT. spell
VERB + WEATHER brave Deciding to brave the weather, he grabbed his umbrella and went out.
WEATHER + VERB clear (up), improve, let up, warm up We'll go just as soon as this weather lets up. | hold out, keep up If the weather holds out we could go swimming later. | threaten Bad weather threatened. | break, deteriorate, worsen It was warm and sunny until the weekend, but then the weather broke. | become sth, get sth, turn sth Next day the weather turned cold. | remain sth, stay sth | close in, set in The weather closed in and the climbers had to take shelter. I wanted to mend the roof before the cold weather set in. | allow, permit I sat outside as often as the weather allowed. We're having a barbecue next Saturday, weather permitting. (You cannot say ‘weather allowing’.) | prevent sth Stormy weather prevented any play in today's tennis. | change
WEATHER + NOUN conditions The plane crashed into the sea in adverse weather conditions. | patterns, system the effects of global warming on the world's weather patterns The Atlantic weather systems had been kind. | forecast, report | data, records | satellite, station | chart, map
PHRASES a change in the weather We hadn't bargained for such a dramatic change in the weather. | in all weathers The lifeboat crews go out in all weathers. | the vagaries of the weather She packed all kinds of clothes to cope with the vagaries of the English weather. | whatever the weather He swims in the sea every day, whatever the weather.
weather verb
1 pass safely through sth
ADV. successfully, well Their company had weathered the recession well.
VERB + WEATHER manage to (figurative) The company has managed to weather the storm.
2 change in appearance because of the sun/air/wind
ADV. badly Some of the stone has weathered quite badly.
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