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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
windy \wind"y\, a. compar. windier; superl. windiest. as.
windig.
1913 webster
1. consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind;
exposed to wind. "the windy hill." --m. arnold.
1913 webster
blown with the windy tempest of my heart. --shak.
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2. next the wind; windward.
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it keeps on the windy side of care. --shak.
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3. tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
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4. serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines;
flatulent; as, windy food.
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5. attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "a
windy colic." --arbuthnot.
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6. fig.: empty; airy. "windy joy." --milton.
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here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory
pleasure, for which i was dishonored. --south.
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see also:
windier windiest
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
windy
adj 1: abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy
weather"; "a windy bluff" syn: blowy, breezy
2: 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"
syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy
also: windiest, windier
see also:
blowy breezy long-winded tedious verbose wordy
windiest windier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
162 moby thesaurus words for "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
- [4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
windy, ky
zip codes: 42655
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