Synonyms of billowing

billowing 1 of 2

adjective

as in rolling

Related Words

• rolling
• surging
• swelling
• wavy
• rippled
• undulating
• undulant
• rippling
• undulatory
• rutted
• lopsided
• rutty
• pocked
• unaligned
• knobby
• nubby
• inexact
• pitted
• unbalanced
• knobbly
• nubbly
• knurled
• knurly

Dissimilar Words

• uniform
• regular
• exact
• true
• horizontal
• vertical
• aligned
• straight
• tabular
• smooth
• flat
• even
• level
• plumb
• flush
• plane

billowing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of billow

as in protruding

to extend outward beyond a usual point

the curtains in the open windows billowed in the summer wind

Synonyms & Similar Words

• protruding
• poking
• bulging
• jutting
• bellying
• projecting
• overhanging
• swelling
• ballooning
• standing out
• beetling
• bunching
• sticking out
• pooching
• pouting
• pouching
• extending
• bagging
• starting
• stretching
• inflating
• distending
• lengthening
• dilating
• mushrooming
• expanding
• elongating
• snowballing
• doming
• blowing up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• contracting
• shrinking
• condensing
• compressing
• constricting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of billowing

Adjective

The reality star wore a billowing tie-dye gown complete with three-dimensional ruffles. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 May 2026

Verb

There was that billowing and entirely formal satisfaction of sails filled with wind. — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

For the ceremony, Sulewski wore a sleeveless ballgown with a billowing skirt and a matching bridal scarf. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 30 Aug. 2026

Video captured of the Ross Fire shows clouds of gray smoke billowing into the sky from the flames. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

With no score, the film’s vivid sound design of billowing foliage, creaky doors and floorboards, creates an austere ambience that softens with quiet feeling as the contours of the family’s troubles are gradually filled out. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026

The sculpture depicts a female figure, her cloak billowing out in the shape of a seed around her and etched with more than 300 global symbols of peace, holding olive branches and surrounded by six children, each representing a continent. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

Video shows billowing clouds of smoke coming from the building. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Two workers were killed and several others injured after two explosions tore through an industrial recycling facility in Toledo, Ohio, early Tuesday, sparking a massive fire and sending thick, black smoke billowing over the area, officials said. — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Russian independent online outlet Astra said an oil refinery in the city of Orsk, some 1,300 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, was hit and published images of smoke billowing over it. — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026