windy
adj.
stormy; exposed to the wind; turned into the wind; resembling wind; hollow; pompous; chattering; flatulent, having intestinal gas
Windy
windy
Adjective
1. abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"
(synonym) blowy, breezy
(similar) stormy
2. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
(synonym) long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy
(similar) prolix
Windy
(superl.)
Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
(superl.)
Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
(superl.)
Next the wind; windward.
(superl.)
Fig.: Empty; airy.
(superl.)
Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
(superl.)
Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
windy
Synonyms and related words:
adulterated, aeolian, air-built, airish, airy, all jaw, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, big, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bombastic, boreal, breezy, brisk, candid, catchpenny, chatty, chimerical, cloud-built, communicative, conversational, cut, de longue haleine, diffuse, dilated, dilute, diluted, distended, drafty, dreamlike, dropsical, edematous, effusive, empty, enchymatous, endless, ethereal, expansive, extended, extravagant, fanciful, fat, fatuitous, fatuous, favonian, filled out, fine, flatulent, flawy, flimsy, flip, fluent, foolish, frank, fresh, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fustian, futile, gabby, garrulous, gaseous, gassy, glib, gossamery, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, gusty, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, idle, illusory, imaginary, inane, incrassate, inflated, insubstantial, lengthy, light, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, mouthy, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, overblown, overtalkative, padded, phantomlike, plethoric, pretentious, prolix, protracted, puffed up, puffy, pursy, rare, rarefied, redundant, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight, smooth, sociable, spirituous, spun-out, squally, subtile, subtle, superficial, swelled, swollen, talkative, talky, tall, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, trifling, trite, trivial, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unrelenting, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous, ventose, verbose, voluble, watered, watered-down, wordy
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.