Synonyms of windy

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adjective (1)

ˈwin-dē 

1

as in gusty

marked by strong wind or more wind than usual

one particularly windy day should shake the last of the autumn leaves from the trees

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gusty
• blustery
• breezy
• blowy
• squally
• drafty
• stormy
• tempestuous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• calm
• still
• motionless
• breathless

2

as in rhetoric

marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases

gave his usual windy speech about working for the common people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rhetoric
• rhetorical
• inflated
• gassy
• gaseous
• pontifical
• bombastic
• flatulent
• oratorical
• grandiloquent
• fustian
• ornate
• turgid
• pretentious
• orotund
• pompous
• grandiose
• lofty
• stilted
• flowery
• wordy
• bloated
• elevated
• florid
• hifalutin
• verbose
• high-sounding
• tumid
• highfalutin
• high-flown
• overdone

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eloquent
• plain
• unrhetorical
• simple
• bald
• direct
• stark
• matter-of-fact
• unaffected
• straightforward
• unpretentious
• unadorned
• well-spoken
• plainspoken

3

as in rambling

using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea

a windy saleswoman who told us a lot more than we wanted to know about vacuum cleaners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rambling
• talkative
• exaggerated
• wordy
• circuitous
• prolix
• diffuse
• redundant
• communicative
• verbose
• pleonastic
• garrulous
• long-winded
• conversational
• circumlocutory
• talky
• voluble
• chatty
• repetitious
• loquacious
• tautological
• gassy
• logorrheic
• periphrastic
• gaseous
• gabby
• tautologous
• bombastic
• grandiloquent
• embroidered
• hifalutin
• embellished
• highfalutin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crisp
• short
• compact
• pithy
• concise
• brief
• terse
• succinct
• sententious
• epigrammatic
• summary
• aphoristic
• abrupt
• blunt
• condensed
• compendious
• abbreviated
• brusque
• shortened
• curt
• laconic
• abridged
• snippy
• brusk

windy

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adjective (2)

ˈwīn-dē 

as in winding

marked by a long series of irregular curves

a windy little creek

Synonyms & Similar Words

• winding
• curved
• curving
• twisted
• twisting
• serpentine
• tortuous
• crooked
• sinuous
• curvy
• curled
• devious
• crazy
• bending
• curling
• jagged
• uneven
• coiled
• zigzag
• roundabout
• spiral
• coiling
• indirect
• circuitous
• swirling
• circling
• looping
• zigzagging
• spiraling
• rambling
• wandering
• spiralling
• meandering
• corkscrew
• irregular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• linear
• direct
• straightaway

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of windy

Adjective

Regarding the latter, it's been nearly two years since Carrie and Seema sat on a windy beach as Carrie pondered a future that didn't include Aiden (at least for now). —Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2025

The gathering drew several hundred people on a rainy and windy day, conditions similar to those during the 1965 event when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke before about 20,000 people. —Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025

The game was moved from 7:10 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. due to the windy and cold conditions in New York. —Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025

Both Lee and Clark said windy conditions may have been a factor in the crash but also may have helped the two men onboard. —Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025