windy
Americanadjective
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windier,
comparative
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windiest
superlative
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accompanied or characterized by wind.
a windy day.
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exposed to or swept by the wind.
a windy hill.
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consisting of or resembling wind.
a windy tempest of activity.
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toward the wind; windward.
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unsubstantial or empty.
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of the nature of, characterized by, or given to prolonged, empty talk; voluble; verbose; bombastic.
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characterized by or causing flatulence.
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Chiefly Scot. boastful.
adjective
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of, characterized by, resembling, or relating to wind; stormy
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swept by or open to powerful winds
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marked by or given to empty, prolonged, and often boastful speech; bombastic
windy orations
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void of substance
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an informal word for flatulent
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slang afraid; frightened; nervous
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Etymology
Origin of windy
before 900; Middle English; Old English windig. See wind 1, -y 1
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They drive what seems to be about 45 minutes to the resort, through wooded forests on windy roads, and arrive in a tropical location overlooking miles of white sandy beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Summer can be especially windy, whipping up the waters around the Cyclades just as tourists flock to the popular islands of Mykonos, Naxos and Milos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It was very windy in the beginning. I felt like it was very hard to control the ball," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
It is a warm but windy evening in East Sussex and we are on the hunt for glow worms.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ahead and eastward they saw the windy uplands of the Wold of Rohan that they had already glimpsed many days ago from the Great River.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Overall, the late August bank holiday weekend looks set to be cooler, windier and wetter than the hot and dry conditions we've experienced for much of this record-breaking summer.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Hotter, drier, windier, wetter — the extremes are battering us increasingly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
On a much windier day last week, on a beach beside an old Bourbon-era fort in the village of Ambleteuse, I met a former fisherman, Stéphane Pinto, who is now the local mayor.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
After a record-breaking spring, the weather has been distinctly unsettled since the start of June with wetter, windier and cooler temperatures than what is typical for the start of meteorological summer.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025
Mucky clouds lidded the sunrise but today was bags windier and better for kite flying.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“We learned that watching Brady throw in Foxborough, one of the windiest stadiums in the NFL. If you have spin rate, wind isn’t much of a factor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
"Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest place on the planet. It is also the highest continent on Earth," Tordeur said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
The windiest weather on Saturday is likely to be found across Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland, northern England and north Wales.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
In a doctoral dissertation that year, Paul Siple, an Antarctic explorer and geographer, observed that “it is not always the windiest days or the coldest ones that affect man’s sensation of chill most.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
That would have been a swell strategy, too, if it hadn’t been the windiest day of the whole year.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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