Loquacious vs Windy - What's the difference?
loquacious | windy | Synonyms |
Talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.
* 1841 , , ch. 8:
Accompanied by wind.
Unsheltered and open to the wind.
Empty and lacking substance.
Long-winded; orally verbose.
Flatulent.
(slang) Nervous, frightened.
* 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
(colloquial) fart
(of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
Loquacious is a synonym of windy.
As adjectives the difference between loquacious and windy
is that loquacious is talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation while windy is accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.As a noun windy is
(colloquial) fart.loquacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious , or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
Synonyms
* chatty, talkative, garrulous * See alsoAntonyms
* laconic, quiet, reserved, taciturnDerived terms
* loquaciously * loquaciousnesswindy
English
Etymology 1
From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).Adjective
(er)- It was a long and windy night.
- They made love in a windy bus shelter.
- They made windy promises they would not keep.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
- The thing is he's not windy, he's a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.