Word.ws English Dictionary

windowy

windowy adjective: having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.

Adjective

windowy (comparative more windowy, superlative most windowy)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
    • Let others freeze with angling reeds,
      And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,
      Or treacherously poore fish beset,
      With strangling snare, or windowie net […]a. 1631, John Donne, “The Baite”, in Poems, published 1633
  2. Having many windows.

Forms of windowy

comparativemore windowy
superlativemost windowy

Origin of windowy

From window + -y.

Questions about windowy

What does windowy mean?
Windowy means having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
What part of speech is windowy?
Windowy is an adjective.

Words near windowy in the dictionary

  1. windowsills
  2. windowsole
  3. windowward
  4. windowwards
  5. windowwise
  6. windowy
  7. Windoze
  8. windpack
  9. windpants
  10. windpipe
  11. windpipes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: windowy (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “windowy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/windowy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.