windswept


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

wind·swept

 (wĭnd′swĕpt′)
adj.
Exposed to or swept by winds: windswept moors.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

windswept

(ˈwɪndˌswɛpt)
adj
1. (Physical Geography) open to or swept by the wind
2. (Hairdressing & Grooming) another word for windblown2
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.windswept - open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"
inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

windswept

adjective
1. exposed, bare, bleak, windy, desolate, unprotected, windblown, blowy the remote and windswept hillside
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
مُعَرَّض للرّيح، تَذْروه الرّيح
forblæst
szélfúttaszéljárta
vindblásinn
ošľahaný vetrom
rüzgâra açık

windswept

[ˈwɪndswept] ADJ [place] → azotado por el viento
he came in looking very windsweptentró con el pelo muy revuelto
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

windswept

[ˈwɪndswɛpt] adj
[plain, plateau, beach, ranges, hills] → balayé(e) par le vent
[hair] → coiffé(e) en coup de vent; [look] → échevelé(e)wind tunnel [ˈwɪndtʌnəl] nsoufflerie fwind-up [ˈwaɪndʌp]
adj [gramophone] → mécanique
n (British)canular m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

windswept

[ˈwɪndˌswɛpt] adj (landscape) → ventoso/a; (square) → spazzato/a dal vento; (person) → scompigliato/a per il vento
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wind1

(wind) noun
1. (an) outdoor current of air. The wind is strong today; There wasn't much wind yesterday; Cold winds blow across the desert.
2. breath. Climbing these stairs takes all the wind out of me.
3. air or gas in the stomach or intestines. His stomach pains were due to wind.
verb
to cause to be out of breath. The heavy blow winded him.
adjective
(of a musical instrument) operated or played using air pressure, especially a person's breath.
ˈwindy adjective
a windy hill-top; a windy day; It's windy today.
ˈwindiness noun
ˈwindfall noun
1. an apple etc blown from a tree.
2. any unexpected gain or success.
ˈwindmill noun
a machine with sails that work by wind power, for grinding corn or pumping water.
ˈwindpipe noun
the passage for air between mouth and lungs.
windsurf, windsurfer, windsurfingwindˈwindscreen noun
(American ˈwindshield).
1. a transparent (usually glass) screen above the dashboard of a car.
2. a wall usually constructed out from the house wall to protect people on a patio or balcony from the wind.
ˈwindsock noun
a device for indicating the direction and speed of wind on an airfield.
windsurf (ˈwindsəːf) verb
to move across water while standing on a windsurfer.
ˈwindsurfer noun
1. (also sailboard) a board with a sail for moving across water with the aid of the wind.
2. the person controlling this board.
ˈwindsurfing noun
ˈwindswept adjective
exposed to the wind and showing the effects of it. windswept hair; a windswept landscape.
get the wind up
to become nervous or anxious. She got the wind up when she realized how close we were to the edge.
get wind of
to get a hint of or hear indirectly about.
get one's second wind
to recover one's natural breathing after breathlessness.
in the wind
about to happen. A change of policy is in the wind.
like the wind
very quickly. The horse galloped away like the wind.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
Then the panting and the shouts died away, and around them nothing could be heard but the whistling of the wind in their ears and now and then the squeak of their sledge-runners over a windswept part of the road.
He seemed to see the great gray piles of granite set in old Spanish towns amid a landscape tawny, wild, and windswept.
Let us go back a few months to the little, windswept platform of a railway station in northern Wisconsin.
Brady's own footsteps showed as plainly as black ink upon white paper; but his was the only foot that had marred the smooth, windswept surface--there was no sign that Bradley had crossed the spot upon the surface of the ground, and yet his cap lay well toward the center of it.
It's an action movie we are not going to make it with squirty guns and custard pies Action movie star Gerard Butler defends the violence in his latest blockbuster Angel Has Fallen I swear to you my love, I will return TV's topless scyther Ross Poldark mumbles his last windswept words to Demelza before shuffling across a beach and off to France.
The Windswept Trail Run and Director's Brewery Tour will take participants along some of Lossiemouth's best running tracks.
Long happy carefree childhood days, No cars or buses all around; And children playing their street games Upon the stony windswept ground.
Miguel Tabuena will be shooting for a piece of history when the $500,000 Solaire Philippine Open tees off April 3 at windswept The Country Club in Laguna.
The more hidden delights of The Gertrude Jekyll Garden at the recentlyrevamped Lindisfarne Castle, meanwhile, was described as "a small yet cleverly-planted walled garden that provide an oasis of warmth, colour and beauty all year round on a windswept and otherwise stark island".
STOURBRIDGE 7 HULL IONIANS 3 By ROGER CLARKE mail.sport@birminghammail.co.uk DOGGED Stourbridge threw a big Black Country spanner in the promotion hopes of National Two North leaders Hull with a determined defensive display at a windswept Stourton Park.
But very little is known about the man behind Windswept Man - the human statue on Market Street who looks like a smart businessman caught in a strong gust of wind.
Hampton Dune Holdings purchased the Windswept Marina at 215 E.