windiest

Windiest is the superlative form of the adjective windy. It is used to describe locations or periods that have the greatest wind speeds or the greatest amount of windiness.

Formation and usage notes: The adjectives windy, windier, and windiest are formed by adding suffixes to the root windy. In standard spelling, windy becomes windier for the comparative and windiest for the superlative, typically by dropping the final -y and adding -ier or -iest. The word is commonly used in meteorology, geography, and everyday language to indicate the strongest winds observed or anticipated in a given context.

Applications: Windiest is usually applied to places (cities, coasts, mountains) or times (seasons, days) with the highest average wind speeds or with frequent strong gusts. It can describe sustained winds, gustiness, or both, depending on the data or description being referenced. In scientific reporting, windiness is often quantified using wind speed measurements (meters per second, kilometers per hour, or miles per hour) and related to atmospheric pressure, temperature, and geographic features such as coastlines or plateaus.

Examples of use: “The windiest month on record brought frequent storms.” “Wellington is frequently described as one of the windiest capitals due to its coastal exposure.” The term can function as a descriptive label in travel writing, climate studies, or weather forecasts, always indicating the extreme end of wind characteristics within the observed dataset.

See also: wind, wind speed, gust, windiness, meteorology.