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wind·y

 (wĭn′dē)
adj. wind·i·er, wind·i·est
1. Characterized by or abounding in wind: a windy night.
2. Open to the wind; unsheltered: a windy terrace.
3. Resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability: a windy dash homeward.
4.
a. Lacking substance; empty: windy promises.
b. Given to or characterized by wearisome verbosity: a windy speaker.
5. Flatulent.

wind′i·ly adv.
wind′i·ness n.
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windy

(ˈwɪndɪ)
adj, windier or windiest
1. (Physical Geography) of, characterized by, resembling, or relating to wind; stormy
2. (Physical Geography) swept by or open to powerful winds
3. (Rhetoric) marked by or given to empty, prolonged, and often boastful speech; bombastic: windy orations.
4. void of substance
5. (Physiology) an informal word for flatulent
6. slang afraid; frightened; nervous
ˈwindily adv
ˈwindiness n
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wind•y

(ˈwɪn di)

adj. wind•i•er, wind•i•est.
1. accompanied or characterized by wind: a windy day.
2. exposed to or swept by the wind.
3. unsubstantial; empty: windy promises.
4. characterized by or given to prolonged, empty talk; voluble; bombastic.
5. characterized by or causing flatulence.
[before 900]
wind′i•ly, adv.
wind′i•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.windy - abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezeswindy - abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"
stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"
2.windy - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
utopian - characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"
3.windy - resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability; "a windy dash home"
fast - acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"
4.windy - using or containing too many wordswindy - 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"
prolix - tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"
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windy

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windy

adjective
1. Exposed to or characterized by the presence of freely circulating air or wind:
2. Filled up with or as if with something insubstantial:
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Translations
شَدِيدُ الرِّيَاحعاصِف، كَثير الرّيح
větrný
blæsende
tuulinen
vjetrovit
szeles
hvassviîrasamur, hvass
風の強い
바람이 센
vetroven
blåsigihåligtom
ซึ่งมีลมแรง
rüzgarlırüzgârlı
lộng gió

windy

[ˈwɪndɪ] ADJ (windier (compar) (windiest (superl)))
1. [day] → de mucho viento, ventoso; [place] (= exposed to wind) → expuesto al viento
it's windy todayhoy hace viento
Edinburgh's a very windy cityen Edimburgo hace mucho viento
the Windy CityChicago m CITY NICKNAMES
2. (Brit) (o.f.) (= afraid, nervous) → miedoso, temeroso (about por) to be windypasar miedo
to get windyasustarse
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windy

[ˈwɪndi] adj [day, night] → de grand vent; [hill, ridge, terrace] → venteux/euse windy conditionswindy conditions nplgrand vent m
in windy conditions → par grand vent
it's windy → il y a du vent
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windy

adj (+er)
day, weather, placewindig
(inf: = verbose) speech, stylelangatmig
(esp Brit inf: = frightened) to be/get windyAngst or Schiss (sl)haben/bekommen
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windy

[ˈwɪndɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl)))
a.ventoso/a
it's windy → c'è vento
b. (fam) (old) (afraid, nervous) windy (about)teso/a (per), nervoso/a (per)
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wind1

(wind) noun
1. (an) outdoor current of air. The wind is strong today; There wasn't much wind yesterday; Cold winds blow across the desert.
2. breath. Climbing these stairs takes all the wind out of me.
3. air or gas in the stomach or intestines. His stomach pains were due to wind.
verb
to cause to be out of breath. The heavy blow winded him.
adjective
(of a musical instrument) operated or played using air pressure, especially a person's breath.
ˈwindy adjective
a windy hill-top; a windy day; It's windy today.
ˈwindiness noun
ˈwindfall noun
1. an apple etc blown from a tree.
2. any unexpected gain or success.
ˈwindmill noun
a machine with sails that work by wind power, for grinding corn or pumping water.
ˈwindpipe noun
the passage for air between mouth and lungs.
windsurf, windsurfer, windsurfingwindˈwindscreen noun
(American ˈwindshield).
1. a transparent (usually glass) screen above the dashboard of a car.
2. a wall usually constructed out from the house wall to protect people on a patio or balcony from the wind.
ˈwindsock noun
a device for indicating the direction and speed of wind on an airfield.
windsurf (ˈwindsəːf) verb
to move across water while standing on a windsurfer.
ˈwindsurfer noun
1. (also sailboard) a board with a sail for moving across water with the aid of the wind.
2. the person controlling this board.
ˈwindsurfing noun
ˈwindswept adjective
exposed to the wind and showing the effects of it. windswept hair; a windswept landscape.
get the wind up
to become nervous or anxious. She got the wind up when she realized how close we were to the edge.
get wind of
to get a hint of or hear indirectly about.
get one's second wind
to recover one's natural breathing after breathlessness.
in the wind
about to happen. A change of policy is in the wind.
like the wind
very quickly. The horse galloped away like the wind.
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windy

شَدِيدُ الرِّيَاح větrný blæsende windig ανεμόδαρτος azotado por el viento, ventoso tuulinen venteux vjetrovit ventoso 風の強い 바람이 센 winderig forblåst wietrzny ventoso ветреный blåsig ซึ่งมีลมแรง rüzgarlı lộng gió 有风的
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Cruncher's private lodging in Hanging-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
1-9) For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn (2); and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.
In this ceaseless rush of shadows and shades, that, like the fantastic forms of clouds cast darkly upon the waters on a windy day, fly past us to fall headlong below the hard edge of an implacable horizon, we must turn to the national spirit, which, superior in its force and continuity to good and evil fortune, can alone give us the feeling of an enduring existence and of an invincible power against the fates.
The truth of the houl matter is jist simple enough; for the very first day that I com'd from Connaught, and showd my swate little silf in the strait to the widdy, who was looking through the windy, it was a gone case althegither with the heart o' the purty Misthress Tracle.
"Ye can apollygise to riff-raff of the streets for settin' yer unhandy feet on the tails of their frocks, but ye'd walk on the neck of yer wife the length of a clothes-line without so much as a 'Kiss me fut,' and I'm sure it's that long from rubberin' out the windy for ye and the victuals cold such as there's money to buy after drinkin' up yer wages at Gallegher's every Saturday evenin', and the gas man here twice to-day for his."
In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.
I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
"I think every one at Windy Corner will approve; it is the fashionable world.
One cold windy day Dolly had brought Jerry a basin of something hot, and was standing by him while he ate it.
It is a good night, only a little rainy and windy; and if it was well wrapt up, and put in a warm basket, it is two to one but it lives till it is found in the morning.
But I'm thinking I would have called to mind that she was a poor woman, and ailing, and terrible windy about her cloak, and I would just have said it was a beauty and that I wished I had one like it.'
When I rode up to the Shimerdas' one bright windy afternoon in April, Yulka ran out to meet me.