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]

English

Etymology

From inclemens

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈklɛm.ənt/

Adjective

1. Stormy, of rough weather.
2. Merciless, unrelenting.

Related terms

• inclemency
• inclemently

Translations

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