Antonyms for Southern
ˈsʌð ərnsouth·ern

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1. southernadjective

   Antonyms:
   northern, boreal, septentrional

   Synonyms:
   meridional, austral

2. southernadjective

   from or pertaining to the southern part of any region

   Antonyms:
   boreal, septentrional, northern

   Synonyms:
   meridional, austral

3. southernadjective

   Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

   The southern climate.

   Antonyms:
   northern, boreal, septentrional

   Synonyms:
   austral, meridional

4. southernadjective

   Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

   Synonyms:
   austral, meridional

   Antonyms:
   boreal, septentrional, northern

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1. southernadjective

   in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

   "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"

   Antonyms:
   northern, Union, Federal, blue, north, north-central, boreal, circumboreal, Yankee, septrional

   Synonyms:
   southerly

2. southerly, southernadjective

   situated in or oriented toward the south

   "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"

   Antonyms:
   blue, north, northern, Yankee, circumboreal, septrional, boreal, north-central, Union, Federal

   Synonyms:
   southern, southerly

3. southernadjective

   situated in or coming from regions of the south

   "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"

   Antonyms:
   north, septrional, circumboreal, northern, boreal, Federal, north-central, blue, Union, Yankee

   Synonyms:
   southerly

4. southerly, southernadjective

   from the south; used especially of wind

   "a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"

   Antonyms:
   northern, Yankee, blue, septrional, boreal, north, Union, circumboreal, north-central, Federal

   Synonyms:
   southern, southerly

How to use Southern in a sentence?

1. Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner:

   We will stop them directly on our southern border as of the end of next week.

2. Andrew Tilker:

   We had these two historical localities separated by quite some distance — one in the southern part of Vietnam and the other much further north, but we knew that many people have camera-trapped in the wet evergreen forests and hadn't seen it, so we thought we should look at the dry forest habitat that's really different and where not many people have looked.

3. Bonner Cohen:

   This is a man-made disaster, southern California is an arid part of the world where droughts -- even severe droughts -- are commonplace, and knowing this, you’d think the government of California would have included this mathematical certainty in its disaster preparedness planning, but the government has done nothing, not even store rain, as the population has continued to grow.

4. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

   The traditional homelands of the Taíno extend from the Caribbean islands to southern Florida. My family lineage is from Borikén (Puerto Rico) and I know that the loss of life people on the island suffered from Hurricane Maria was not simply the result of an extreme weather event. The casualties are also the result of the colonial legacy that includes racism and years of neglect.

5. Donald Trump:

   I would say to the head of Ford, 'Sorry, I'm not going to approve it,' you're going to pay a tax for every car and every truck and every part that comes across that southern border. You're going to pay a 35% tax, OK?

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