windswept
/ˈwɪn(d)swɛpt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwɪn(d)swɛpt/
windswept
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
win - dswept -> windswept
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation.’
- ‘The fen part of the county, with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields, has always been an acquired taste.’
- ‘Inverewe Gardens and lively Ullapool are at odds with the rugged, windswept landscape of the Wester Ross coast, discovers Tom Lappin’
- ‘As I looked out over the windswept landscape, I felt as if I were pulled into the drama revealing itself to me.’
- ‘‘We all have our reasons for living here, ’ said one, spreading her arms wide to take in the vast expanse of barren, windswept land.’
- ‘After the Great Famine, many who had started life in a windswept village found themselves ending it in Hammersmith or Hell's Kitchen.’
- ‘Among the rich and the famous who came to mourn her, one figure stood out in the windswept cemetery - Frank Sinatra.’
- ‘Our new training oval that replaced the best surface in the AFL at Victoria Park, is nothing more than an undersized windswept ghetto that was once a swamp.’
- ‘Before arriving on our windswept streets, Walker served as the Executive Director of Vermont Stage Company.’
- ‘My family's roots are in Lanarkshire, where funerals are typically sombre affairs held in a chapel, followed by a graveside service at a windswept cemetery.’
- ‘We'd recommend against choosing redwood or any other natural wood in the wet and windswept environment you describe.’
- ‘After a plantation of conifers there was a windswept field.’
- ‘The prospect of an intense evening of ‘towpath humping’ at a rainy, windswept canal near Paisley doesn't faze the actress in the least.’
- ‘Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.’
- ‘An isolated, bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners.’
- ‘His move to transform what was once just a windswept field came in the wake of government plans to recycle burial areas, because space in the nation's cemeteries is running out.’
- ‘Dripping wet and deeply disturbed, the smartly-dressed man was discovered walking along a windswept road beside the sea.’
- ‘Walking on wet limestone is like walking on ice and the windswept nature of the region makes death from exposure a very real threat.’
- ‘There was something raw and elemental about Dorset's windswept landscape that I'd missed, and which I needed, if only to remind myself what the city lacked.’
- ‘The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside, seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain.’
Synonyms
desolate, barren, inhospitable, exposed, bleak, unsheltered, lonely, bare, airy, austere, biting, bitter, blank, blighted, blowing, blowy, blustering, blustery, boisterous, bombed, breezy, brisk, bulldozed, burned, chill, chilly, cleared, cold, damp, deforested, desert, deserted, drafty, dreary, flat, freezing, fresh, gaunt, grim, gusty, harsh, open, piercing, raw, scorched, squally, stormy, stripped, tempestuous, unpleasant, unpopulated, weather-beaten, wet, wild, wind-swept, windy
Antonyms
appealing, bright, calm, cheerful, clean, clement, comfortable, comforting, congenial, cooked, done, encouraging, experienced, friendly, good, happy, healed, healthy, hot, moral, nice, pleasant, quiet, responsive, sheltered, sophisticated, sunny, sympathetic, uncommunicative, unresponsive, warm, well-done
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