Windy \Wind"y\, a. [Compar. Windier; superl. Windiest.] [AS.
windig.]
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1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind;
exposed to wind. "The windy hill." --M. Arnold.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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