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adjectivewindiest, windier ˈwɪndiˈwɪndi 1Characterized by or exposed to strong winds. 一个风大的日子。 Example sentencesExamples - Very windy conditions and extremely warm weather increase the dangers associated with backyard burning as well.
- Free-range hens huddled in their doorways because their field was a bit windy.
- Avoid low spots that might flood, as well as high, exposed, or windy locations.
- As it got closer, it got extremely windy, I could barely see from the dust clouds everywhere.
- The tradespeople aren't working outside this morning because it's too windy and dangerous.
- Hilly areas are often windy, but the wind could blow strong for certain periods and then not at all during others.
- Urban heat islands occur mainly at night and are reduced in windy conditions.
- Then again, it was a pretty windy day, and voices were muted by the sound of the wind.
- Liam Varley opened the scoring for the seasiders on this cold and extremely windy outing.
- Jessie and myself are convinced that it is still much too windy.
- Though it was a dull, rather windy day, people turned out in force.
- Was warm but quite windy and once we'd got there it was basically grey.
- Cleaning graffiti off walls would not be everybody's first choice at 8.30 am on a cold windy day.
- The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
- Even if it is sunny, it can be quite windy on Lough Corrib.
- Also, do not spray soaps onto plants that are water-stressed or during hot, windy, or humid weather.
- Our weather today is very windy with the odd shower of rain.
- The kids were running around, some with kites, as the weather was so windy.
- It was clear from the start that the strong windy conditions were going to have an immediate effect on the result of the game.
- Roy Appleyard converted from the touchline, an excellent kick considering the very windy conditions.
Synonyms breezy, blowy, fresh, blustery, gusty wild, stormy, squally, tempestuous, turbulent chiefly Northern English wuthering rare boisterous, blusterous windswept, exposed, unprotected, open to the elements, bare, bleak 2British Suffering from, marked by, or causing an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal. 〈英〉肠胃气胀的;引起肠胃气胀的 Example sentencesExamples - After a good night out, I find I am very windy the next morning, so much so that I am totally bloated and cannot do up my trousers.
3informal Using or expressed in many words that sound impressive but mean little. 〈非正式〉浮夸的,夸夸其谈的,空洞无物的 the way to save time in an exam is by omitting windy phrases 在考试中节省时间的办法就是不写空话。 Example sentencesExamples - One word of warning: it's awfully windy out there, so make sure to bring items to weigh down the lighter things which are in danger of blowing away.
- The first time I was aware of James Schuyler was in one of those rather windy American ‘Best of’ annuals.
- Otherwise our multi-lateral, global institutions are exposed as windy talking shops.
- I recently took Mark Pilgrim off my links, because he wrote a very windy and tedious wind-up of Dave Winer.
- Election Day in a Chinese village brings Jimmy Carter, windy speeches, and dubious promises
- The king goes on to bore the hell out of them with a long, windy speech.
- I'm all for due credit, but save the acknowledgements for your windy Grammy acceptance speech.
- By the end of a book that began as a windy meditation on leadership we are left with the impression of a decent man whose experiences offer many lessons indeed.
- Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
- All those windy characters were kind of hard to bring to life when I was reading them in high school.
Synonyms verbose, long-winded, wordy, prolix, lengthy, overlong, prolonged, protracted, long-drawn-out, tedious talkative, garrulous, voluble, loquacious rambling, meandering, repetitious, tautological, periphrastic, circumlocutory, tortuous informal talky rare pleonastic 4British informal (of a person) nervous or anxious about something. 〈英,非正式〉(人)紧张的;忧虑的 Example sentencesExamples - It's a funny track and I like it, but it's funny because it works against the original Chuck D vocal, deflating it, making him sound a bit windy and stupid.
Synonyms nervous, anxious, worried, apprehensive, on edge, edgy, tense, stressed, fretful, uneasy, jumpy, with one's stomach in knots frightened, scared, afraid, fearful informal with butterflies in one's stomach, jittery, twitchy, trepidatious, in a state, uptight, in a stew, in a dither, all of a dither, in a sweat, in a flap, in a tizz/tizzy, all of a lather, het up, in a twitter British informal strung up, stressy, all of a doodah North American informal spooky, squirrelly, in a twit Australian/New Zealand informal toey dated overstrung
Derivativesadverb We made it safely to the low wall built by the mujahidin - Basyir and I exhaled windily - and hiked on to the peak, hopping across the ditch once or twice to the ancient boundary wall to look down into West Kabul. Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's most closely associated with U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding,’ writes Quinion, ‘who used it a lot and who was by all accounts the classic example of somebody who orates verbosely and windily.’
- Try to write too windily and the end result won't be worth reading.
noun Loess is a fine-grained aeolian sediment, typically liberated by the grinding action of glaciers, which may be transported great distances and indicates both windiness and aridity. Example sentencesExamples - The volume of writing is enormous, these days, and much of it has a sort of windiness about it, almost as though the author were in a state of euphoria.
- Actually it wasn't too much colder than Santa Fe, but the extra wetness and windiness made it feel much colder.
- However, there were few buyers for the plots of land and the venture failed, probably because of the windiness of the site and inaccessibility of the shore.
- So I learned to trust my eyes rather more than the windiness of words.
OriginOld English windig (see wind1, -y1). RhymesCindy, Hindi, indie, Indy, Lindy, Rawalpindi, shindy, Sindhi, Sindy adjectivewindiest, windier ˈwʌɪndiˈwaɪndi (of a road or river) following a curving or twisting course. (道路,河流)蜿蜒的,弯弯曲曲的 Example sentencesExamples - But we did, he thought, find his agent's house, up a windy road outside of town.
- It's a great windy road and I love driving roads like that so that's a bit of fun.
- They do not want to get stuck on those narrow, dangerous, windy roads, behind big trucks.
- The drive home through the windy roads was uneventful and we got back to the hotel by midnight.
- People, unaware of the dangers, were shovelling it out of public buildings and their houses into the town's dry and windy streets.
- Sometimes a Northerly gale leaps on us and has enormous fun chasing us about the windy streets as though we are of no more significance than a collection of dry leaves whirling along.
- Paris doesn't feel that old, especially after all the time I spent in the compact, windy streets of the old City of Zurich.
- Soon we were driving along the windy roads surrounded by tall trees that led to my grand parents' house.
- Of course, I could not see the town yet, as the country road was quite windy and hilly.
- I am the original girl racer along those testing windy country roads.
- I think the most dangerous part was riding for six hours in the back of a car on windy roads.
- I turned onto a windy road up into the hills above our town.
- According to local police, Hatch was speeding when her car slipped through a gap between guardrails on the windy road, sending her car to the bottom of the ravine.
- We proceeded down a windy country road, following the River Chew towards its source.
- However, like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, they look completely out of context, if not ridiculous, on the narrow, windy streets of London.
- The secondary roads are windy and provide poor links to the main roads and there is no bus stop.
- I'm at the wheel; I'm the only one who drives, as Judy didn't like the windy roads.
- Last year we painted a picture of Kinross as a hidden gem containing stunning classics such as Loch Leven, windy roads and friendly country pubs.
- Nothing was more amusing than standing inside the pivot point and seeing it twist and turn as the driver maneuvered through the windy streets of Kingston.
adjectiveˈwɪndiˈwindē 1(of weather, a period of time, or a place) marked by or exposed to strong winds. (天气,一段时间,地方)风大的,大风劲吹的 一个风大的日子。 Example sentencesExamples - The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
- The tradespeople aren't working outside this morning because it's too windy and dangerous.
- Was warm but quite windy and once we'd got there it was basically grey.
- Roy Appleyard converted from the touchline, an excellent kick considering the very windy conditions.
- Then again, it was a pretty windy day, and voices were muted by the sound of the wind.
- Liam Varley opened the scoring for the seasiders on this cold and extremely windy outing.
- Also, do not spray soaps onto plants that are water-stressed or during hot, windy, or humid weather.
- Hilly areas are often windy, but the wind could blow strong for certain periods and then not at all during others.
- It was clear from the start that the strong windy conditions were going to have an immediate effect on the result of the game.
- Jessie and myself are convinced that it is still much too windy.
- Our weather today is very windy with the odd shower of rain.
- Even if it is sunny, it can be quite windy on Lough Corrib.
- Cleaning graffiti off walls would not be everybody's first choice at 8.30 am on a cold windy day.
- As it got closer, it got extremely windy, I could barely see from the dust clouds everywhere.
- The kids were running around, some with kites, as the weather was so windy.
- Though it was a dull, rather windy day, people turned out in force.
- Avoid low spots that might flood, as well as high, exposed, or windy locations.
- Urban heat islands occur mainly at night and are reduced in windy conditions.
- Very windy conditions and extremely warm weather increase the dangers associated with backyard burning as well.
- Free-range hens huddled in their doorways because their field was a bit windy.
Synonyms breezy, blowy, fresh, blustery, gusty windswept, exposed, unprotected, open to the elements, bare, bleak 2British Suffering from, marked by, or causing an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal. 〈英〉肠胃气胀的;引起肠胃气胀的 Example sentencesExamples - After a good night out, I find I am very windy the next morning, so much so that I am totally bloated and cannot do up my trousers.
3informal Using or expressed in many words that sound impressive but mean little. 〈非正式〉浮夸的,夸夸其谈的,空洞无物的 Example sentencesExamples - One word of warning: it's awfully windy out there, so make sure to bring items to weigh down the lighter things which are in danger of blowing away.
- Otherwise our multi-lateral, global institutions are exposed as windy talking shops.
- I'm all for due credit, but save the acknowledgements for your windy Grammy acceptance speech.
- Election Day in a Chinese village brings Jimmy Carter, windy speeches, and dubious promises
- All those windy characters were kind of hard to bring to life when I was reading them in high school.
- The first time I was aware of James Schuyler was in one of those rather windy American ‘Best of’ annuals.
- Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
- The king goes on to bore the hell out of them with a long, windy speech.
- By the end of a book that began as a windy meditation on leadership we are left with the impression of a decent man whose experiences offer many lessons indeed.
- I recently took Mark Pilgrim off my links, because he wrote a very windy and tedious wind-up of Dave Winer.
Synonyms verbose, long-winded, wordy, prolix, lengthy, overlong, prolonged, protracted, long-drawn-out, tedious
OriginOld English windig (see wind, -y). adjectiveˈwaɪndiˈwīndē (of a road or river) following a curving or twisting course. (道路,河流)蜿蜒的,弯弯曲曲的 Example sentencesExamples - We proceeded down a windy country road, following the River Chew towards its source.
- I think the most dangerous part was riding for six hours in the back of a car on windy roads.
- I am the original girl racer along those testing windy country roads.
- But we did, he thought, find his agent's house, up a windy road outside of town.
- It's a great windy road and I love driving roads like that so that's a bit of fun.
- However, like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, they look completely out of context, if not ridiculous, on the narrow, windy streets of London.
- Sometimes a Northerly gale leaps on us and has enormous fun chasing us about the windy streets as though we are of no more significance than a collection of dry leaves whirling along.
- The drive home through the windy roads was uneventful and we got back to the hotel by midnight.
- People, unaware of the dangers, were shovelling it out of public buildings and their houses into the town's dry and windy streets.
- Last year we painted a picture of Kinross as a hidden gem containing stunning classics such as Loch Leven, windy roads and friendly country pubs.
- They do not want to get stuck on those narrow, dangerous, windy roads, behind big trucks.
- I'm at the wheel; I'm the only one who drives, as Judy didn't like the windy roads.
- Of course, I could not see the town yet, as the country road was quite windy and hilly.
- Paris doesn't feel that old, especially after all the time I spent in the compact, windy streets of the old City of Zurich.
- Soon we were driving along the windy roads surrounded by tall trees that led to my grand parents' house.
- I turned onto a windy road up into the hills above our town.
- Nothing was more amusing than standing inside the pivot point and seeing it twist and turn as the driver maneuvered through the windy streets of Kingston.
- According to local police, Hatch was speeding when her car slipped through a gap between guardrails on the windy road, sending her car to the bottom of the ravine.
- The secondary roads are windy and provide poor links to the main roads and there is no bus stop.
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