windier

Adjective

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

1. Accompanied by wind.
   • It was a long and windy night.

   Synonyms:

   blowy, blustery, breezy

   Antonyms:

   calm, windless

2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.
   • They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
3. Empty and lacking substance.
   • They made windy promises they would not keep.
4. Long-winded; orally verbose.
   • I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21

   Synonyms:

   circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole, sesquipedalian, verbose, wordy

5. (informal) Flatulent.
   • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

   Synonyms:

   farty, flatulent, gassy, breezy, curmurring

6. (slang) Nervous, frightened.
   • The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848

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