WINDY
What does "WINDY" mean?
Marked by or exposed to strong wind.
Meanings
- Having a lot of wind; blustery. It was too windy to fly the kite without it crashing.
- Long-winded; using too many words and saying little. His windy speech lost the audience after ten minutes. figurative
- Of a road or river, having many bends (pronounced with a long 'i'). We drove the windy mountain road at dusk.
Did you know?
- 'Windy' is two words wearing one spelling: say it 'WIN-dee' and it means blustery weather; say it 'WINE-dee' and it means a road full of bends.
Word origin
From Old English 'windig', from 'wind' (the moving air) plus '-ig', the ancestor of the adjective suffix '-y'.
Remember it
WIND + Y: the Y bends like a path - which is why 'windy' can mean both gusty and twisting.
A little poem
The clothesline argues-
shirts thrash like flags of a war
no one declared yet.
haiku
Wordplay
- His apology was so windy that by the end I'd forgotten what he'd done.
What it teaches
Beware the windy talker and the windy road: both take long to arrive nowhere near where you aimed.
Quick facts
What does WINDY mean?
Marked by or exposed to strong wind.
Is WINDY a valid word?
Yes — WINDY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WINDY?
WINDY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does WINDY come from?
From Old English 'windig', from 'wind' (the moving air) plus '-ig', the ancestor of the adjective suffix '-y'.
What can WINDY teach us?
Beware the windy talker and the windy road: both take long to arrive nowhere near where you aimed.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.