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clement
1[ klem-uhnt ]
adjective
- mild or merciful in disposition or character; lenient; compassionate:
A clement judge reduced his sentence.
- (of the weather) mild or temperate; pleasant.
Clement
2[ klem-uhnt ]
noun
- a male given name.
clement
/ ˈklɛmənt /
adjective
- merciful
- (of the weather) mild
Derived Forms
- ˈclemently, adverb
Other Words From
- clement·ly adverb
- over·clement adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of clement1
Word History and Origins
Origin of clement1
Example Sentences
Such worlds might resemble the large moons of our outer solar system and harbor potentially clement conditions beneath an icy crust.
A planet’s atmosphere plays an even bigger role; if it’s loaded with greenhouse gases, then it needs to be farther out from the star to be clement.
For those of us hoping to find more clement Earth-like worlds, that wasn’t very satisfying.
The Hampden pitch bore the scars of Saturday's semi-final being played in horrible weather but Sunday's more clement conditions made for an engrossing tie.
Billions of years ago, before it became a freeze-dried desert, the Red Planet was much more Earth-like, with liquid water and clement temperatures at its surface.
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