windy
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- adjective
- A2
used about weather or a place where a lot of air blows strongly.
It was too windy to put the umbrella up at all.
The washing dried in an hour on that warm, windy afternoon.
Our tent shook all night because the hilltop was so windy.
Sailors love this bay, as it stays windy most of the year.
Common collocations: a windy day · cold and windy · windy weather · get windy · a windy hilltop
Part of: Weather
Sense 2 · less common
- adjective
- B2
used about a road or path that turns one way and then the other many times.
The windy mountain road made half the passengers feel sick.
We drove slowly along a windy lane between two stone walls.
A windy path leads from the village up to the old tower.
Common collocations: a windy road · a windy lane · a windy path · narrow and windy
Part of: Landscape, Directions
Forms
- comparative
- windier
- superlative
- windiest