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gusty

/ˈɡʌs.ti/

gusty adjective: of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.

Adjective (1)

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

  1. Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
    • The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45
  2. (figuratively) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
    • A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.1898, Leo Tolstoy (Nathan Haskell Dole, trans.), War and peace, page 103
    • 'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass
  3. (figuratively) Bombastic, verbose.
    • “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53
    • From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21

Adjective (2)

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

  1. With gusto.
    • His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.1917, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 18, page 486
    • I give her a gusty wink.2004, John Cottle, The Blessings of Hard-used Angels, page 152

gusty meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

gusty in Tamil

வீச்சுசார், திடீர்க் காற்று

gusty in Urdu

پرجوش, طوفانی, زور کا

gusty in Bengali

দমকা হাওয়াযুক্ত, ঝড়ো

gusty in Malayalam

blustery, windy, breezy
പ്രക്ഷുബ്ധമായ, പ്രചണ്ഡമായ, കാറ്റും പിശറും ഉള്ള, കാറ്റും കോളുമുള്ള, ഇരമ്പലുള്ള, ശക്തിയായ കാറ്റുള്ള

Examples of gusty in a sentence

  • The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion:
  • Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355:
  • Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic:
  • She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.2009, Deni Bash Hoffman, All's Fair in Love and Mystery, page 48:

All 13 example sentences with gusty

Forms of gusty

comparativegustier
superlativegustiest

Origin of gusty

From gust + -y.

From Latin gustus (“tasting”).

Words formed from gusty

Words that rhyme with gusty

Questions about gusty

What does gusty mean?
Gusty means of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
What is gusty in Tamil?
Gusty in Tamil is வீச்சுசார், திடீர்க் காற்று. See Gusty meaning in Tamil.
How do you use gusty in a sentence?
The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
What part of speech is gusty?
Gusty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gusty?
Gusty is pronounced /ˈɡʌs.ti/ (UK).

Words near gusty in the dictionary

  1. Guston
  2. gustoso
  3. gusts
  4. gustsful
  5. Gustus
  6. gusty
  7. Gusu
  8. gut
  9. gut barging
  10. gut bomb
  11. gut bombs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gusty (page history and authors); gusty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gusty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gusty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gusty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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