wind

Questions about wind

What is another word for wind?

It depends which wind you mean. In the sense “air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure”, the synonyms are air current, current of air. Across all 15 senses there are 33 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wind?

The recorded antonym is unwind. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Why are the synonyms for wind split into groups?

Because wind carries 15 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for wind come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wind

• Full entry for windAll 15 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for windWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.