windy
/ˈwɪn.di/ adjective, noun, proper noun
Forms windier windiest windies
- adjective Accompanied by wind. “It was a long and windy night.”
- adjective Unsheltered and open to the wind. “They shagged in a windy bus shelter.”
- adjective Empty and lacking substance. “They made windy promises they would not keep.”
- adjective Long-winded; orally verbose.
- adjective (informal) Flatulent. “The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.”
- adjective (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- noun (colloquial) A fart.
- adjective (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- noun (Ireland) A window.
- proper noun A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
- proper noun A female given name.
Synonyms
blowy blustery breezy circumlocutory diffuse periphrastic palaverous pleonastic prolix rigmarole sesquipedalian verbose wordy farty flatulent gassy curmurring airy impractical visionary Laputan long-winded tedious
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).
The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.
From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.
Variant of window.
Often a diminutive of names starting with Wi-, such as Wilhelmina and Winifred, with -y. Influenced by windy.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." M. Arnold.
- adjective Next the wind; windward.
Etymology [AS. windig.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “windy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details