windless
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- adjective
- /ˈwɪndləs/
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- We woke the next morning to pale sunlight and a windless twenty degrees.
- a windless day
It would have to be windless day, dry conditions, and he would have to be in front of like a big a crowd cheering him on to run his best performance ever.
- It would have to be windless day, dry conditions, and he would have to be in front of like a big a crowd cheering him on to run his best performance ever.
Examples
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A windless, still night, palely illuminated by a three-quarter moon, a mad-eye moon, high overhead.
Fiction book (1995) -
The effort of the pursuit drained him of his strength, and the muggy, windless air made him light-headed.
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm as calm as a lake on a windless day.
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When I returned, it was to a crisp, cold, windless Sunday morning.
Blog text (29) -
The summer solstice was not long past, and the weather was clear, warm, and windless.
Fiction book (2001) -
However, in extreme close-ups on a windless day, a tripod is invaluable.
Academic text (1999) -
In the hot, windless nights on Bald Mountain, Mattie dreams of her sister and wakes frequently.
Fiction book (1996) -
His down parka is unzipped in the sunny, windless, forty-degree afternoon.
Fiction book (1993) -
Carrying an empty water bladder and clumsy in the windless cold, Linna trudged along a faint trail on the moss-mottled ground.
Fiction book (2000) -
We woke to a peaceful, windless morning that felt like a gentle embrace.
Synonyms
Air that has no wind and is completely still
Antonyms
How Windy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word windless is made from wind meaning 'moving air' and the ending -less meaning 'without', so it simply means 'without wind' or very still air. That's why sailing is hard and a lake can be perfectly still when it is windless.