windiest
windiest is the superlative form of windy.
Meaning of windy
Adjective
windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)
- Accompanied by wind.
- It was a long and windy night.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- They made windy promises they would not keep.
- 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
- Flatulent.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
- Synonyms:
- farty, flatulent, gassy, breezy, curmurring
- 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
Questions about windiest
- What is windiest the superlative form of?
- Windiest is the superlative form of windy.
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