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PRONUNCIATION OF WINDILY

windily  [ˈwɪndɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WINDILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Windily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES WINDILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of windily in the English dictionary

The definition of windily in the dictionary is in an empty, prolonged and pompous manner. Other definition of windily is in a windy manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WINDILY


bodily
ˈbɒdɪlɪ
dandily
ˈdændɪlɪ
dilli
ˈdɪlɪ
dilly
ˈdɪlɪ
giddily
ˈɡɪdɪlɪ
greedily
ˈɡriːdɪlɪ
handily
ˈhændɪlɪ
moodily
ˈmuːdɪlɪ
Piccadilly
ˌpɪkəˈdɪlɪ
randily
ˈrændɪlɪ
readily
ˈrɛdɪlɪ
shoddily
ˈʃɒdɪlɪ
speedily
ˈspiːdɪlɪ
steadily
ˈstɛdɪlɪ
tardily
ˈtɑːdɪlɪ
tidily
ˈtaɪdɪlɪ
trendily
ˈtrendɪlɪ
unhandily
ʌnˈhændɪlɪ
unsteadily
ʌnˈstedɪlɪ
woundily
ˈwuːndɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WINDILY

windflower
windgall
windgalled
windgun
Windhoek
windhover
windier
Windies
windiest
windigo
windiness
winding
winding drum
winding sheet
winding staircase
winding-up
windingly
windjammer
windjamming
windlass

WORDS THAT END LIKE WINDILY

bawdily
beadily
bloodily
cloudily
dowdily
foolhardily
gaudily
hardily
headily
muddily
needily
reedily
rowdily
ruddily
seedily
shadily
unreadily
untidily
weedily
wordily

Synonyms and antonyms of windily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «windily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WINDILY

Find out the translation of windily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of windily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «windily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

windily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

windily
570 millions of speakers

English

windily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

windily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

windily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

windily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

windily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

windily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

windily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bergetar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

windily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

windily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

windily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Windily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

windily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

windily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पष्टपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

windily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ventosamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

windily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

windily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

windily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

windily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

windily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

windily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

windily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of windily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WINDILY»

The term «windily» is used very little and occupies the 178.827 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WINDILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «windily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «windily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about windily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WINDILY»

Discover the use of windily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to windily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas
That those buried at sea "shall not die windily" seems almost too true unless " windily" means emptily or in vain. Birds and waves of the last stanza recall Hopkins' poem of sea and skylark. Flowers also hammer through the ground in "I dreamed ...
William York Tindall, 1962
2
Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation and Future in Micah
Micah2.ll Would that (if) each one is walking (in) spirit (windily and deceptively) ( he lies). And deceptively he lies (he lies deception), I will prophesy to you (ms) for wine and intoxicating drink. And this people will be one prophesying. Returning ...
‎2001
3
The Tales of Mew the Cat
She could here Mrs. Turner shouting at her children; Alisha and windily. She was talking about making their beds before they could go camping for a week. A week that's too long I can't wait for funnies for a week. She thought. She heard Alisha ...
Juanaiga Okugas, 2011
4
The Lakeside Monthly
WINDILY over the rocking sea and windily over the damp dim grasses, Hurries the night from star to star, and mantles the lonely world; Sombrely from the silver sunset heighten the storm's cloud-masses; Out on the black and perilous water ...
Francis Fisher Broune, 1870
5
Prudence Says So
When you say, 'The wind went drifting o'er the lea,' you must kind of let your voice glide along, very rhythmically, very — " "Windily," suggested Connie, who remained to witness the exhibition. "You keep still, Constance Starr, or you can get out ...
Ethel Hueston, 1916
6
Coming To Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native ...
... my wings are already wet. ” Broad stands with drizzle passing in front. And in front I go, my wings already wet. 20 Then one more [song] sounds, which is also [ about ] Broad. “Broad Mountain stands, ” it says; “inside it speaks very windily.
Brian Swann, 2010
7
Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other ...
The man-moon rises from behind the cloud of unconsciousness to cognize and thereby guide the seas, that is, to symbolize the separation of the waters that made the difference whereby he "rose windily" out of his material inertness in the  ...
Eynel Wardi, 2000
8
Wilson Plays: 2
(She takes hishandand takes the glove off. Underneath, it is white too.) You'll die in bed at ninetyfour with your grandchildren all around you... Did you know Violetwants to carry yourchild ...? Or ... anybody else's child ... Henry sighs windily .
Snoo Wilson, 2014
9
Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century ...
Thomas structures the poem through pairs of cognate or antithetical terms: " Though they go mad they shall be sane' juxtaposes the antithetical terms 'mad' and 'sane'; 'Under the windings of the sea / They lying long shall not die windily' ...
Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta, 2005
10
A Concordance to the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
159 9 85 178 9 WINDILY Windily master of man was the rotten fathom, 38 26 20 44 16 And when the moon rose windily it was 40 11 22 46 11 They lying long shall not die windily; 68 12 4a 77 12 WINDING This day winding down now vii 1 1  ...
Robert Coleman Williams, 1967

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WINDILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term windily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Desert storm
... with the windily titled The Chronicles of Riddick, in which Diesel's silver-eyed convict is revealed to be some kind of interstellar royalty, the sworn enemy of an ... «The Monthly, May 15»
2
Tom McCarthy: a Kafka for the Google age
I worry he'll be either a windily pretentious theorist or a tormented savant, but when he lopes into the café and unwinds a stripy, wasp-abdomen yellow scarf, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
3
Kodaline: Coming Up for Air review – surpassing Coldplay in lyrical …
Opener Honest has a verse borne windily aloft by the same “whoahs” that have been echoing around stadiums for well over a decade; Steve Garrigan's voice ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
4
Microsoft's Nadella: Congratulations on 12 months of not being …
He's talked windily of cloud first and mobile first, but how Microsoft will make money from this? Why buy Minecraft's maker – for the machine learning and the ... «The Register, Feb 15»
5
'Before We Go': Toronto Review
But the characters' problems and fears are not complex enough to be engrossing, and ultimately, they never become much more than a windily contemplative ... «Hollywood Reporter, Sep 14»
6
Does Edinburgh need two festivals?
... the theatrical line-up always looks like a mere grab-bag – the best that could be got in difficult circumstances, and often windily pretentious and widely disliked ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
7
'Glassheart': Rorschach Theatre updates 'Beauty and the Beast'
Why, it's “Beauty and the Beast,” only updated — charmingly, if a little windily — as a new play called “Glassheart” by emerging playwright Reina Hardy. «Washington Post, Jan 14»
8
Ender's Game – film review
Gavin Hood's film is as windily solemn as the theme is, or could be, bewitchingly topical. (Not just the ascent of brainy teens, but insects as tomorrow's odds-on ... «Financial Times, Oct 13»
9
Superstitious Motycka wins county spelling bee
Crestview fifth grader Madalyn Ward (mentor), Crestview seventh grader Derek Stout (windily), Lincolnview fifth grader Gavin Carter (slav), Lincolnview eighth ... «Times Bulletin, Feb 13»
10
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume …
Isn't its absence the reason why the 'War Requiem' seems so windily theatrical and Owen Wingrave so weak and jejune? Most readers will find something to ... «Spectator.co.uk, Feb 13»

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