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Synonyms for windy

Most common

gusty breezy blustery stormy verbose wordy airy flatulent

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Gusty — accompanied by wind

gusty, breezy, blustery, stormy, blustering, blowy, squally, blusterous

2. Verbose — long-winded; orally verbose

verbose, wordy, prolix, long-winded, tedious, diffuse

4. Flatulent

flatulent, gassy

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Accompanied by wind.

    It was a long and windy night.

  2. adj. 2

    Long-winded; orally verbose.

  3. adj. 3

    Unsheltered and open to the wind.

    They shagged in a windy bus shelter.

  4. adj. 4

    Empty and lacking substance.

    They made windy promises they would not keep.

Related words

Word family
windily windiness

Example sentences

  • stormy Wet and stormy areas will get wetter and stormier.
  • breezy Close the window, it's cold and breezy outside.
  • gusty The sky was gray. It was really gusty.
  • blustery Rain will clear to leave sunshine and blustery showers.
  • tedious The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
  • bendy The Mayor of London doesn't like bendy buses.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
windyrising
stormysteady
breezyrising
gustysteady
blusteryrising
tedioussteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
airy2
5 letters
empty2, gusty2, wordy2, bendy2, gassy, blowy2
6 letters
stormy2, breezy2, prolix
7 letters
tedious3, diffuse2, sinuous2, verbose, squally
8 letters
blustery3, weathery
9 letters
visionary4, flatulent3
10 letters
blustering3, blusterous
11 letters
impractical4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (airy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
venteux
Italiano
ventoso
Deutsch
windig