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windiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun windiness has 2 senses
- windiness(n = noun.state) breeziness - a mildly windy state of the air; Array is a kind of storminess
- windiness(n = noun.communication) long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, wordiness - boring verbosity; Array is a kind of verboseness, verbosity
Derived form adjective windy1
has particulars: flatulence, turgidity, turgidness
Derived form adjective windy4
CIDE DICTIONARY
windiness, n.
- The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. [1913 Webster]
- Fullness of wind; flatulence. [1913 Webster]
- Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. [1913 Webster]
- Tumor; puffiness. [1913 Webster]"The swelling windiness of much knowledge." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
windiness
Wind
N wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball, blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary, lull'd by soft zephyrs, the storm is up and all is on the hazard, the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, while mocking winds are piping loud, winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage.
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