| English Dictionary |
BREEZY (breezier, breeziest)
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
| IPA (US): |  |
, breeziest Dictionary entry overview: What does breezy mean?
• BREEZY (adjective)
The adjective BREEZY has 2 senses:
1. fresh and animated
2. abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
Familiarity information: BREEZY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: breeziest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fresh and animated
Context example:
her breezy nature
Similar:
lively (full of life and energy)
Derivation:
breeziness (a breezy liveliness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
Synonyms:
Context example:
a windy bluff
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Derivation:
breeze (a slight wind (usually refreshing))
breeziness (a mildly windy state of the air)
Context examples
Beyond was a young fir plantation, and over its olive line there rose a white whirl which drifted swiftly, like a cloud-scud on a breezy day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He and I were the only occupants of the parlour: Diana was practising her music in the drawing-room, Mary was gardening—it was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You appear to be entering into an enchantingly social period, one that could offer a welcome, breezy balance to the strong career emphasis so prevalent in November.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In the ruffled mane, the rider's breezy hair and erect attitude, there was a suggestion of suddenly arrested motion, of strength, courage, and youthful buoyancy that contrasted sharply with the supine grace of the 'Dolce far Niente' sketch.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles—fevered with delusive bliss one hour—suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next—or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." (Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will both come out." (Arabic proverb)
"Forbidden fruit is the sweetest." (Czech proverb)