1. (a.) Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
2. (a.) Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement weather.
Thesaurus Entries
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
