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The synonyms of “Windy” are: airy, impractical, laputan, visionary, long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy, blowy, breezy, fresh, blustery, gusty, windswept, exposed, unprotected, open to the elements, bare, bleak, prolix, lengthy, overlong, prolonged, protracted, long-drawn-out, nervous, anxious, worried, apprehensive, edgy, tense, stressed, fretful, uneasy, jumpy
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “windy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| airy | Open to or abounding in fresh air. Airy clouds. |
| anxious | Feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome. An anxious look. |
| apprehensive | Quick to understand- Nathaniel Hawthorne. Apprehensive of danger. |
| bare | Just barely adequate or within a lower limit. A bare majority. |
| bleak | (of the weather) cold and miserable. Prospects were bleak. |
| blowy | Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes. A blowy day. |
| blustery | Blowing in violent and abrupt bursts. A cold blustery day. |
| breezy | Appearing relaxed, informal, and cheerily brisk. The text is written in a breezy matter of fact manner. |
| edgy | At the forefront of a trend; experimental or avant-garde. He became edgy and defensive. |
| exposed | Not covered or hidden; visible. Her exposed breast. |
| fresh | Presumptuous towards someone, especially in a sexual way. The foliage was still a fresh colour. |
| fretful | Habitually complaining. A constant fretful stamping of hooves. |
| gusty | Characterized by or blowing in gusts. Gusty winds. |
| impractical | (of a person) not skilled or interested in doing practical work. His impractical romanticism. |
| jumpy | (of a person) anxious and uneasy. A jumpy pulse. |
| laputan | Not practical or realizable; speculative. |
| lengthy | Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted. Lengthy delays. |
| long-drawn-out | Not allowed to continue to bat or run. |
| long-winded | Using or containing too many words. |
| nervous | Of or relating to the nervous system. Staying in the house on her own made her nervous. |
| open to the elements | Of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints. |
| overlong | Too long. An overlong sermon. |
| prolix | Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length. He found the narrative too prolix and discursive. |
| prolonged | Drawn out or made longer spatially. The region suffered a prolonged drought. |
| protracted | Relatively long in duration tediously protracted. A protracted and bitter dispute. |
| stressed | Strengthened by the application of stress during manufacture prestressed. An iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in delay. |
| tedious | Using or containing too many words. Tedious days on the train. |
| tense | Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles e g the vowel sound in beat. Tense piano strings. |
| uneasy | Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. |
| unprotected | Not protected or kept safe from harm or injury. It is easy for anyone to get at the unprotected password file. |
| verbose | Using or containing too many words. Much academic language is obscure and verbose. |
| visionary | Relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. Visionary dreams. |
| windswept | (of a place) exposed to strong winds. The windswept moors. |
| wordy | Using or expressed in rather too many words. A wordy and repetitive account. |
| worried | Anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems. He is worried that we are not sustaining high employment. |
| airy | Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air. Airy gauze curtains. |
| billowing | (of fabric) filled with air and swelling outwards. All I could see was thick billowing smoke. |
| churn | Produce butter by churning milk or cream. Her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal. |
| convolute | Rolled longitudinally upon itself. A convolute petal. |
| convolution | The state of being or process of becoming coiled or twisted. Crosses adorned with elaborate convolutions. |
| convolve | Roll or coil together; entwine. |
| cyclone | A system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure, with an anticlockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression. |
| eddy | A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself. An eddy of chill air swirled into the carriage. |
| gale | A strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale. Gale force winds battered the North Sea coast. |
| gust | Of the wind blow in gusts. Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the open door. |
| gusty | Characterized by or blowing in gusts. Gusty female vocals. |
| hail | Hail falls. A hail of bullets. |
| hurricane | A wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale (equal to or exceeding 64 knots or 118 km/h). The manager resigned in a hurricane of disagreement. |
| maelstrom | A powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river. The train station was a maelstrom of crowds. |
| purl | Knit with a purl stitch. Knit one purl one. |
| rainfall | The quantity of rain falling within a given area in a given time. Low rainfall. |
| roil | Make (someone) annoyed or irritated. The sea roiled below her. |
| snow | Fall as snow. Vanilla snow. |
| squall | Blow in a squall. Sarah was squalling in her crib. |
| storm | Storm windows. The manager is at the centre of a drugs storm in Germany. |
| stormy | Full of angry or violent outbursts of feeling. A stormy relationship. |
| swirl | Cause to move in a twisting or spiralling pattern. The leaves swirled in the autumn wind. |
| tempest | A violent windy storm. A raging tempest. |
| thunderstorm | A storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning. |
| tornado | A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. Teenagers caught up in a tornado of sexual confusion. |
| typhoon | A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans. |
| vane | A broad blade attached to a rotating axis or wheel which pushes or is pushed by wind or water and forms part of a machine or device such as a windmill, propeller, or turbine. |
| vortex | A whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind. A swirling vortex of emotions. |
| weather | Change under the action or influence of the weather. I would advise to weather her in her hood. |
| whirlpool | Flow in a circular current, of liquids. He was drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool. |
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