Windy
['wɪndɪ] or ['wɪndi]
Definition
(adj.) resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability; 'a windy dash home' .
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Definition
(superl.) Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
(superl.) Next the wind; windward.
(superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
(superl.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
(superl.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.
(superl.) Fig.: Empty; airy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous.[2]. Empty, airy.[3]. Flatulent.
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Examples
- Windy donkey as he was, it really amazed me that he could have the face to talk thus to mine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is an old dream, but it always comes back on windy nights, till I am thankful to waken, sitting straight and stiff up in bed with my terror. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was a windy day, and the air stirring on Little Dorrit's face soon brightened it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In a little time, I observed the noise and flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign in a windy day. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But he spoke in a very rare and windy way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The solitary figure who walked this beat took no notice of the windy tune still played on the dead heathbells. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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