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Wordy vs Windy - What's the difference?

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Wordy is a related term of windy.


As adjectives the difference between wordy and windy

is that wordy is using an excessive number of words 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.

wordy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Using an excessive number of words.
    • The story was long and very wordy .

    Synonyms

    * verbose * pleonastic * sesquipedalian * See also * See also

    Anagrams

    * *

    windy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Accompanied by wind.
    • It was a long and windy night.
  • Unsheltered and open to the wind.
    • They made love in a windy bus shelter.
  • Empty and lacking substance.
    • They made windy promises they would not keep.
  • Long-winded; orally verbose.
  • Flatulent.
    • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
  • (slang) Nervous, frightened.
  • * 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Antonyms
    * (accompanied by wind) calm, windless

    Noun

    (windies)
  • (colloquial) fart

    • Etymology 2

    From + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.