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windy

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Adjective, Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective windy has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

windya. [AS. windig.].
  •  Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.  M. Arnold.  [1913 Webster]
    "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Next the wind; windward.  [1913 Webster]
    "It keeps on the windy side of care."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Fig.: Empty; airy.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
    "Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

windy, adj. (windier, windiest)
1 stormy with wind (a windy night).
2 exposed to the wind; windswept (a windy plain).
3 generating or characterized by flatulence.
4 colloq. wordy, verbose, empty (a windy speech).
5 colloq. nervous, frightened.

Derivative
windily adv. windiness n.
Etymology
OE windig (as WIND(1), -Y(1))

THESAURUS

windy

adulterated, aeolian, air-built, airish, airy, all jaw, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, big, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bombastic, boreal, breezy, brisk, candid, catchpenny, chatty, chimerical, cloud-built, communicative, conversational, cut, de longue haleine, diffuse, dilated, dilute, diluted, distended, drafty, dreamlike, dropsical, edematous, effusive, empty, enchymatous, endless, ethereal, expansive, extended, extravagant, fanciful, fat, fatuitous, fatuous, favonian, filled out, fine, flatulent, flawy, flimsy, flip, fluent, foolish, frank, fresh, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fustian, futile, gabby, garrulous, gaseous, gassy, glib, gossamery, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, gusty, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, idle, illusory, imaginary, inane, incrassate, inflated, insubstantial, lengthy, light, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, mouthy, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, overblown, overtalkative, padded, phantomlike, plethoric, pretentious, prolix, protracted, puffed up, puffy, pursy, rare, rarefied, redundant, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight, smooth, sociable, spirituous, spun-out, squally, subtile, subtle, superficial, swelled, swollen, talkative, talky, tall, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, trifling, trite, trivial, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unrelenting, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous, ventose, verbose, voluble, watered, watered-down, wordy

ROGET THESAURUS

windy

Air

N air, common air, atmospheric air, atmosphere, aerosphere, open air, sky, welkin, blue sky, cloud, weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar, aerology, aerometry, aeroscopy, aeroscopy, aerography, meteorology, climatology, pneumatics, eudioscope, baroscope, aeroscope, eudiometer, barometer, aerometer, aneroid, baroscope, weather gauge, weather glass, weather cock, exposure to the air, exposure to the weather, ventilation, aerostation, aeronautics, aeronaut, containing air, flatulent, effervescent, windy, atmospheric, airy, aerial, aeriform, meteorological, weatherwise, in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco, sub jove dio.

Wind

N wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball, blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary, lull'd by soft zephyrs, the storm is up and all is on the hazard, the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, while mocking winds are piping loud, winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage.

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