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windy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of windy

1 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 of windy

blowy, blustery, breezy, gusty, squally
Words Related to windy

drafty

stormy, tempestuous
Near Antonyms of windy

breathless, calm, motionless, still

2 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 of windy

bombastic, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, orotund, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
Words Related to windy

bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid

overdone, verbose, wordy
Near Antonyms of windy

eloquent, well-spoken

bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious
Antonyms of windy

unrhetorical

3 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 of windy

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, wordy
Words Related to windy

chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble

periphrastic

redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated

bombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin)
Near Antonyms of windy

brief, short

aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious

compendious, summary

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy
Antonyms of windy

compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse

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windy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of windy

marked by a long series of irregular curves

  • a windy little creek
Synonyms of windy

bending, crazy, crooked, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding
Words Related to windy

zigzag, zigzagging

circling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling (or spiralling), swirling

circuitous, indirect, roundabout

meandering, rambling, wandering

irregular, jagged, uneven
Near Antonyms of windy

direct, linear
Antonyms of windy

straight, straightaway

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