'Windy' definitions:
Definition of 'windy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: blowy, breezy, windy]
adjective
Not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]
adjective
Resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability; "a windy dash home"
adjective
Definition of 'Windy'
From: GCIDE
- Windy \Wind"y\, a. [Compar. Windier; superl. Windiest.] [AS. windig.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Next the wind; windward. [1913 Webster]
- It keeps on the windy side of care. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'windy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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