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say it: WIN-dee
windy is an adjective meaning "abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes". It carries 4 recorded senses.
not practical or realizable; speculative
“airy theories about socioeconomic improvement”
“visionary schemes for getting rich”
using or containing too many words
“long-winded (or windy) speakers”
“verbose and ineffective instructional methods”
“newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials”
“proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for windy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.