windswept
windswept adjective: exposed to the winds.
Adjective
windswept (comparative more windswept, superlative most windswept)
- Exposed to the winds.
- We struggled over the windswept moorland.
- A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity.1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
windswept meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese
windswept in Malayalam
- bare, exposed, bleak
- കാറ്റടിയേൽക്കുന്ന, കാറ്റേൽക്കുന്ന, തുറന്നിട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, അനാവൃതമായ, വിജനമായ, ശൂന്യമായ
- unkempt, dishevelled, tousled
- കാറ്റടിച്ചുപറത്തിയ, കാറ്റത്തുലഞ്ഞ, വിലുളിത, അഴിഞ്ഞുലഞ്ഞ, അലങ്കോലമായ, ഉലച്ചിട്ട
windswept in Kannada
- ಗಾಳಿಗೆ ಎದುರಾದ, ಗಾಳಿಗೆ ತೆರೆದುಕೊಂಡ, ಗಾಳಿಯ ಹೊಡೆತಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ, ಅಸ್ವಚ್ಛ, ಧೂಳಿನಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದ
windswept in Vietnamese
- exposed to wind
- lộng gió
Examples of windswept in a sentence
- A panoramic view of the Falkland Islands shows a windswept, treeless landscape.
- Roots are left exposed and rocks are placed as they might be on a windswept hillside.
- Snowpowdered valleys and windswept leaves and pretty dogwood blossoms.
Forms of windswept
| comparative | more windswept |
|---|---|
| superlative | most windswept |
| alternative form | wind-swept |
Origin of windswept
From wind + swept.
Questions about windswept
- What does windswept mean?
- Windswept means exposed to the winds.
- What is windswept in Malayalam?
- Windswept in Malayalam is കാറ്റടിയേൽക്കുന്ന, കാറ്റേൽക്കുന്ന, തുറന്നിട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന. See Windswept meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is windswept?
- Windswept is an adjective.
Words near windswept in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: windswept (page history and authors); windswept (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); windswept (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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