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 rhetorical

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

• rhetorical
• inflated
• gassy
• gaseous
• pontifical
• bombastic
• flatulent
• oratorical
• grandiloquent
• ornate
• fustian
• turgid
• pretentious
• orotund
• pompous
• grandiose
• elevated
• lofty
• stilted
• flowery
• bloated
• wordy
• florid
• 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
• verbose
• communicative
• pleonastic
• garrulous
• long-winded
• conversational
• circumlocutory
• talky
• voluble
• chatty
• repetitious
• loquacious
• tautological
• gassy
• logorrheic
• periphrastic
• gaseous
• gabby
• tautologous
• bombastic
• grandiloquent
• embroidered
• embellished
• highfalutin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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
• meandering
• corkscrew
• irregular

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• linear
• direct
• straightaway

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of windy

Adjective

Wednesday will be hot, windy and very dry in Minnesota, prompting critical fire danger for much of the state. —Joseph Dames, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026

In a video captured on March 12 and shared via ViralHog, a man stepped onto a neighbor’s porch in Glens Falls, New York, carrying a pair of bolt cutters on a windy night. —Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026

More than a dozen states across the Rockies and Plains from Texas to Montana and Minnesota are under fire weather alerts on Wednesday due to hot, dry and windy conditions. —Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026

Meanwhile, onboard fuel meters and speed logs showed a clear reduction in engine throttle during windy stretches. —Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026