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Synonyms for windy
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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. blowy, breezy, windyadjective

    abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes

    "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"

    Synonyms:
    wordy, verbose, visionary, airy, long-winded, tedious, impractical, blowy, breezy

    Antonyms:
    slow, concise, calm, dystopian

  2. airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windyadjective

    not practical or realizable; speculative

    "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"

    Synonyms:
    verbose, wordy, blowy, aery, aeriform, ethereal, airy, long-winded, tedious, impractical, aerial, visionary, breezy, aired

    Antonyms:
    slow, calm, dystopian, concise

  3. windyadjective

    resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability

    "a windy dash home"

    Synonyms:
    blowy, verbose, visionary, airy, long-winded, wordy, impractical, tedious, breezy

    Antonyms:
    calm, slow, concise, dystopian

  4. long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyadjective

    using or containing too many words

    "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

    Synonyms:
    dull, wearisome, wordy, boring, verbose, blowy, tedious, slow, impractical, airy, tiresome, breezy, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, visionary, deadening

    Antonyms:
    concise, dystopian, slow, calm

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. stormy

    high winds, bad weather, gale

    it's very stormy outside today.

    Submitted by acronimous on January 25, 2014  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. windyadjective

    Synonyms:
    breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous

  2. windyadjective

    Synonyms:
    empty, airy

  3. windyadjective

    Synonyms:
    flatulent

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. windyadjective

    Synonyms:
    squally, gusty, tempestuous, flatulent

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "windy":

    wind, asif

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How to use windy in a sentence?

  1. Jonathan Houghton:

    When the shark opens its mouth, it's kind of like opening your jacket on a windy day. It inflates out and that cartilage gives it some structure so that its skin isn't just flapping around.

  2. Joel Dahmen:

    Easy to make doubles out here, it was maybe a little anxious out there maybe, trying to get myself in a good spot. The finishing stretch is hard. I don’t care if it’s windy or not or downwind, it’s just going to be hard out there.

  3. Hannah Cloke:

    It reflects the greater confidence that forecasters have closer to the event that it will be really, really windy and that people are putting their lives at risk unless they take action now.

  4. Alex Padilla:

    There's a sustained drought, it's very concerning both from a water supply standpoint and of course wildfires, drought, extreme heat, and windy conditions ; it's a dangerous recipe.

  5. Rachael Kapatuka:

    The smoke from the charcoal is discomforting, so I need to use it outdoors, when it is windy, cooking outdoors is challenging because you get dust and other trash in your utensils.


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