Word Meanings - WINDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." M. Arnold. Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. Shak. 2. Next the wind; windward. It keeps on the windy side of care. Shak. 3. Tempestuous;

Additional info about word: WINDY

1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." M. Arnold. Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. Shak. 2. Next the wind; windward. It keeps on the windy side of care. Shak. 3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather. 4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food. 5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic." Arbuthnot. 6. Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." Milton. Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WINDY)

• Verbose
• Windy
• prolix
• prosy
• tedious

Related words: (words related to WINDY)

• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• PROLIXIOUS
  Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
• VERBOSE
  Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. --
• WINDY
  1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." M. Arnold. Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. Shak. 2. Next the wind; windward. It keeps on the windy side of care. Shak. 3. Tempestuous;
• PROSY
  1. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose. 2. Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
• TEDIOUS
  Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
• PROSYLOGISM
  A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
• PROLIXNESS
  Prolixity. Adam Smith.
• PROLIXITY
  The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.
• PROLIX
  pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
• OVERTEDIOUS
  Too tedious.