windy
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- adjective
- /ˈwɪndi/
:
ventoso
- She struggled to keep her hat on because it was so windy outside.
- a windy day
- windy conditions
- windy weather
Also don't mind my hair, so windy and so cold.
- Also don't mind my hair, so windy and so cold.
- That's kind of a standard slightly windy New England day, all right.
- Today though, it's rainy, it's windy, it's dark and gloomy.
- But it was just a tremendously windy, windy, windy year.
- Can you imagine how windy it would be up there?
- But as you can see, it's very windy and it's cold.
- If it's a windy day, you don't leave the house.
- A very, very windy neighbourhood of Medway.
Examples
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It's not cold when it's not windy, but when it's windy, it's very cold.
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Good morning on what is sure to be a windy one.
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Can you imagine how windy it would be up there?
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It's been such a windy, windy spring.
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It's really windy, but she just loves it so much.
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It's a cold and windy winter night here in South London.
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It's been so windy tonight.
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It's pretty windy up here.
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Really cold and windy and wet from yesterday.
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One cold, windy day, my mother took me for a walk up the boardwalk.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A wind that blows in sudden strong bursts
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Open to strong winds and often looking wild and empty
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A place or time with a light wind that makes you feel cool
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Windy weather with strong gusts that make noise
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The weather has strong wind that moves things like leaves or umbrellas
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Strong wind that blows in sudden loud gusts
Very strong, noisy wind that blows in sudden bursts
Antonyms
Compounds
How Windy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Windy comes from wind meaning 'moving air' and the ending -y meaning 'full of'. So windy literally means 'full of wind', which is why we use it for weather or places with a lot of wind.