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100 Words to Describe Wind

May 3, 2026

100 Words to Describe Wind

No. Item Definition
1. airy open to moving air
2. anabatic flowing uphill from heating
3. arctic very cold like polar air
4. backing turning counterclockwise in direction
5. balmy mild and pleasantly breezy
6. biting sharply cold in the wind
7. blustery loud, rough, and gusty
8. breezy pleasantly windy
9. brisk fresh and energetically windy
10. calm with little or no wind
11. changeable not constant in behavior
12. chinook warm dry wind east of Rockies
13. clean free of smoke or dust
14. curling bending in curved motion
15. cutting sharply cold like strong wind
16. damp slightly wet in feel
17. drafty letting in moving air
18. dry without much moisture
19. dusty carrying dust through air
20. easterly blowing from the east
21. eddying circling back on itself
22. erratic unpredictable and uneven
23. faint barely noticeable in movement
24. falling decreasing in force
25. fierce powerfully strong and harsh
26. fitful starting and stopping irregularly
27. foehn warm dry downslope wind
28. foggy thick with suspended moisture
29. freezing cold enough to freeze
30. fresh cool and moderately windy
31. freshening growing stronger gradually
32. frigid very cold and severe
33. gale-force as strong as a gale
34. gentle soft and light in force
35. gusty with sudden strong bursts
36. hazy blurred by particles in air
37. heavy dense and hard to bear
38. howling making a loud wailing sound
39. humid holding much water vapor
40. humming making a steady low sound
41. icy extremely cold in feel
42. intense extremely strong in force
43. katabatic flowing downhill under gravity
44. keen sharp and cold in wind
45. light not strong in force
46. loud easy to hear strongly
47. marine coming from the sea
48. mistral cold strong wind in France
49. misty filled with fine moisture
50. moaning making a low mournful sound
51. moderate neither weak nor strong
52. moist slightly damp in the air
53. monsoonal seasonally reversing and wet
54. muggy warm, humid, and heavy
55. murmuring making a low soft sound
56. nippy slightly cold and breezy
57. noisy making a lot of sound
58. northerly blowing from the north
59. offshore blowing away from shore
60. onshore blowing from sea to land
61. oppressive heavy and uncomfortable to feel
62. piercing painfully cold and windy
63. polar coming from polar regions
64. powerful very forceful
65. prevailing most common in an area
66. rainy bringing or accompanied by rain
67. raw cold and damp with wind
68. restless constantly moving and unsettled
69. rising increasing in force
70. roaring making a deep loud sound
71. rough uneven and forceful
72. rushing moving very fast
73. shifting changing direction often
74. shrill high-pitched and piercing
75. sighing making a soft breathy sound
76. slight small in strength
77. soft mild and easy to feel
78. spiraling moving in a spiral
79. steady blowing evenly without change
80. still without noticeable wind
81. sweeping moving broadly and strongly
82. swirling moving in circles
83. tempestuous very stormy and turbulent
84. thundery suggesting thunderstorm conditions
85. trade steady tropical easterly wind
86. turbulent rough and disorderly in motion
87. twisting turning and changing direction
88. variable changing in speed or direction
89. veering turning clockwise in direction
90. violent very strong and destructive
91. wandering moving in changing directions
92. westerly blowing from the west
93. wet carrying moisture or rain
94. whirling spinning rapidly around
95. whistling making a high thin sound
96. wild violent and uncontrolled
97. windless having no wind
98. windy having a lot of wind
99. wintry cold like winter weather
100. zephyrous like a soft west wind
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