adjective
- Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes.
- usage: "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff"
- Not practical or realizable; speculative.
- usage: "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
- synonyms: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan
- Resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability.
- usage: "a windy dash home"
- Using or containing too many words.
- usage: "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
- synonyms: long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy
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