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

During the warm season when bounce houses are popular, thunderstorms or windy conditions can happen suddenly. —Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025

After a tough first week in rainy and windy conditions, Fitzgerald was 9-for-10 on field goals on the skinny goal posts over the next two practices with reporters present. —Joseph Person, New York Times, 16 June 2025

Several factors impacted the Red Bull car since the track was windy and faced high temperatures. —Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025

However, Knox and his collaborators have become the foremost research group in the world documenting windy conditions and large inflatable structures. —Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025