as in diffuseness
the use of too many words to express an idea
he's a brilliant thinker, but his windiness tends to overwhelm his ideas
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as in gusty
marked by strong wind or more wind than usual
one particularly windy day should shake the last of the autumn leaves from the trees
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as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
gave his usual windy speech about working for the common people
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as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
a windy saleswoman who told us a lot more than we wanted to know about vacuum cleaners
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as in winding
marked by a long series of irregular curves
a windy little creek
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Recent Examples of windiness
Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Chaisson said windy conditions and swampy terrain limits access to the crash site.
—Latoya Gayle, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
If possible, delay or cancel your travel plans in the case of windy conditions.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Apr. 2025
Caring for Sunflowers After Planting Keep the soil around your sunflower seedlings evenly moist until the plant reaches at least half of its final height to develop a strong root system and help prevent toppling from windy conditions.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
He’s mastered that flighted down bulletproof iron shot for windy conditions and tiny landing areas.
—Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Chaisson said windy conditions and swampy terrain limits access to the crash site.
—Latoya Gayle, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
If possible, delay or cancel your travel plans in the case of windy conditions.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Apr. 2025
Caring for Sunflowers After Planting Keep the soil around your sunflower seedlings evenly moist until the plant reaches at least half of its final height to develop a strong root system and help prevent toppling from windy conditions.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for windiness
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People who completed the 10 repetitions for each exercise easily for two consecutive sessions moved up to a harder version of the exercise.—
Kristen Fischer,
Health,
17 Apr. 2025
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He was inspired by the terse, concrete lines of Gertrude Stein and the repetition printmaking of Andy Warhol.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
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Whether Borrelia amplification by pheasants poses a risk to gamekeepers and land managers, or even to the general public through broader ecological diffusion, is still unknown.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Policymakers in Washington should also design AI regulation to enable responsible technology diffusion.—
Michael C. Horowitz,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2025
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Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Still, the challenge lies in managing the explosive verbosity that modern tools enable effortlessly.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
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“Windiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windiness. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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