Definition of "northeasterly" []

• Situated toward the northeast. (adjective)
• Coming or being from the northeast. (adjective)

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• "I do sense the winds are starting to shift a little bit more maybe northeasterly, meaning that the storm is getting a little bit closer to us."
• "A hawk that fit the description of a juvenile light-morph broad-winged hawk sat for an hour on the most northeasterly branch of the most easterly tree on the island."
• "The scroll is unfurled from the coffin in a northeasterly direction, so that the priest may walk the soul along it in the proper direction."