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

The event’s sheen is visually obvious, with pink and blue balloon arrangements that would go pop every few minutes amid the windy summer heat of Queens. —Essence, 6 Sep. 2025

The biggest market focused on French TV took place in a wet and windy Le Havre this week. —Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025

Milwaukee is getting a windy start to the weekend. —Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025

Even a person mowing their lawn on a windy day might send embers into the air. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025