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windiest

windiest is the superlative form of windy.

Meaning of windy

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

What is windiest the superlative form of?
Windiest is the superlative form of windy.

Words near windiest in the dictionary

  1. Windian
  2. Windians
  3. Windie
  4. windier
  5. windies
  6. windiest
  7. windigo
  8. windigoes
  9. windigog
  10. windigos
  11. windily

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