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marked by strong wind or more wind than usual <one particularly windy day should shake the last of the autumn leaves from the trees> Synonymsblowy, blustery, breezy, gusty Related Wordsdrafty; stormy, tempestuous Near Antonymsbreathless, calm, motionless, still
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marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases <gave his usual windy speech about working for the people> — see rhetorical
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using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea <a windy saleswoman who told us a lot more than we wanted to know about vacuum cleaners> — see wordy
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