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/ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/ · adjective
Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows..
He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.
[…] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.
This allows the muscular man to order a suit whose jacket fits him in the chest and shoulders and is not billowy through the waist and hips; and whose trousers fit him in the waist but whose legs are not reminiscent of harem pants.
Use billowy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Billowy means Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows..
Common synonyms include surging, billowing, stormy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.
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