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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCLEM'ENT, a. Destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
1. Rough; stormy; boisterous; rainy; rigorously cold, etc.; as inclement weather; inclement sky.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of weather or climate) severe [ant: clement]
2: used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy; "the harsh sentence of an inclement judge" [ant: clement]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin inclement-, inclemens, from in- + clement-, clemens clement Date: 1621 lacking mildness: as a. archaic severe in temper or action ; unmerciful b. physically severe ; stormy <inclement weather> • inclemently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (of the weather or climate) severe, esp. cold or stormy. Derivatives: inclemency n. (pl. -ies). inclemently adv. Etymology: F inclément or L inclemens (as IN-(1), CLEMENT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inclement In*clem"ent, a. [L. inclemens; pref. in- not + clemens mild: cf. F. incl['e]ment. See Clement.] 1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather. --Cowper. The guard the wretched from the inclement sky. --Pope. Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow! --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Inclement weather is unpleasantly cold or stormy. (FORMAL) ? clement ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Severe, rigorous, harsh, boisterous, stormy, rough, not mild. 2. Unmerciful, harsh, severe, destitute of clemency.

Moby Thesaurus

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