breeze

1. 1.

   a slight wind (usually refreshing)

   “the breeze was cooled by the lake”

   “as he waited he could feel the air on his neck”

   Synonymszephyrgentle windair

   Broaderwind

   Narrowersea breezebreathlight airlight breezegentle breezemoderate breezefresh breezestrong breeze
2. 2.

   any undertaking that is easy to do

   “marketing this product will be no picnic”

   Synonymscinchpicnicsnapduck soupchild's playpushoverwalkoverpiece of cake

   Broaderundertaking

   Narrowerdoddle

1. 1.

   blow gently and lightly

   “It breezes most evenings at the shore”

   Broaderblow
2. 2.

   to proceed quickly and easily

   Broadertravel

Other forms of breeze

plural

breezes·

past tense

breezed·

present participle

breezing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breeze

What does breeze mean?

breeze means "a slight wind (usually refreshing)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breeze?

breeze has 1 syllable: breeze. In IPA it is /ˈbɹiz/.

What is another word for breeze?

Close synonyms include zephyr, gentle wind, air, cinch, picnic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breeze a common word?

breeze is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.